J Korean Oncol Nurs.  2010 Aug;10(2):218-230.

Pilot Study on Development of Telecommunication Guideline for Symptom Management of Lung Cancer Patients

• Sung JH
• Kim MY
• Hwang OH
• Yoo HJ
• Lee EJ

Abstract

PURPOSE
This study was conducted to develop the telecommunication guideline that was possible to make the immediate, logical decisions and to evaluate the possibility of the use by verifying it from the specialists' group.
METHODS
Telecommunication guideline was designed with selected six symptoms which were pain, dyspnea, nausea/vomiting, diarrhea, fever, and cough based on the results of literature.
RESULTS
This study showed that the patients understood well about the contents of the questions, examination, and education. Also, 85% of them fulfilled the guidelines of the adjustment and more of them were satisfied with the results shown to all of them compared to the previous telecommunication. And 95% of them replied that the information from the telecommunication was more useful than any other information sources related to the information of cancer and self management that were used previously.
CONCLUSION
The telecommunication was considered to complement the weakness during the time the cancer patients spent at home after the treatments. Also, it was expected to be a role as an immediate and comprehensive method of decision making and a passage for information supply which was considered the specialty of individual patient related to an inquiry of the self management.

Keyword

Lung cancer; Self management; Telecommunication

MeSH Terms

Complement System Proteins
Cough
Decision Making
Diarrhea
Dyspnea
Fever
Humans
Logic
Lung
Lung Neoplasms
Pilot Projects
Self Care
Telecommunications
Complement System Proteins

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  Fig. 1 Research design.

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