Asian Oncol Nurs.  2022 Jun;22(2):84-92. 10.5388/aon.2022.22.2.84.

Qualitative Content Analysis of Nursing Counseling for Gastric Cancer Patients Who have Undergone Operation

• Kim MG
• Park EY

• KMID: 2530940
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.5388/aon.2022.22.2.84

Abstract

Purpose
The purpose of this study was to analyze the content of consultations by an oncology nurse practitioner by period and the characteristics of gastric cancer surgery patients.
Methods
Qualitative content analysis research was used. The data of this study consisted of counseling records by an oncology nurse practitioner. Data for analysis comprised a total of 898 counseling records of 118 patients. Counseling patients were gastric cancer patients who were diagnosed and received operations from January 1, 2019, to December 31, 2019. Data were analyzed using the qualitative content analysis method.
Results
The data were classified and analyzed as follows: three major categories of physical needs, information needs, and psychosocial needs; five middle categories of symptom management, self-management information, medical information, financial information, emotional support; and 16 subcategories. Regarding the number of consultations by category, the most frequent requests for information were 141 cases (15.7%) for physical needs, 634 cases (70.6%) for information requests, and 123 cases (13.7%) for psychosocial needs.
Conclusion
Gastric cancer patients who have undergone operations were wanted the tailored counseling and education are needed for each period from diagnosis to treatment. Oncology nurse practitioners should provide counseling with integrated nursing perception. The recording of all counseling content, including psychosocial needs, is important to illustrate the performance outcome. This research is a meaningful study demonstrating the counseling performed by an oncology nurse practitioner.

Keyword

Stomach neoplasms; Counseling; Nurse practitioner; Qualitative research