Clinical trial NCT04600869: Effects of Naturalistic Decision-Making Model-based Oncofertility Care Education
Official title: Effects of Naturalistic Decision-Making Model-based Oncofertility Care Education for Nurses and Patients With Breast Cancer
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Fertility Issues
Breast Cancer
Education
Keywords: Education
Decisional Conflict
Breast Cancer
Nurse
Oncofertility
Lead sponsor: Mackay Medical College
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2020-10-23
Enrollment: 140
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 22
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Intervention model description: This study examined the effects of an oncofertility education program on decisional conflict in nurses caring for breast cancer patients and patients with breast cancer.
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: his study examined the effects of an oncofertility education program on decisional conflict in nurses caring for breast cancer patients and patients with breast cancer. Other predictors of decisional conflict were also examined.

Detailed description: Background: Nurses play an essential role in transferring knowledge to patients. However, several factors cause nurses to adopt a negative attitude toward providing oncofertility care.

Objective: This study examined the effects of an oncofertility education program on decisional conflict in nurses caring for breast cancer patients and patients with breast cancer. Other predictors of decisional conflict were also examined.

Design: Randomized, controlled experimental research. Settings and Participants: Patients (61) with breast cancer and nurses (79) were recruited from a hospital in Taipei, Taiwan.

Methods: The nursing participants were randomly assigned to receive oncofertility education (experimental group) or usual education (control group). Data from female patients in the control and experimental groups were collected before and after the nurses' educational training, respectively. The oncofertility education consisted of one face-to-face educational session and reading one educational booklet based on the Naturalistic Decision-Making (NDM) Model. The decisional conﬂict was measured using the Chinese version of the decisional conﬂict scale.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* All nurses involved in breast care were recruited into the study.
* Female patients with breast cancer who were younger than 50 years and who were about to start cancer treatment were recruited from one teaching hospital in Taipei, Taiwan.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Women with a major illness or mental disorder before their cancer diagnosis were excluded.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Decisional conflict
timeFrame: Nurses: 1 month; Patients: 6 months
measure: Oncofertility Barrier Scale
timeFrame: Nurses: 1 month
measure: Infertility Knowledge Questionnaire
timeFrame: Nurses: 1 month; Patients: 6 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Fertility Intention Scale
timeFrame: Patients: 6 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: New Taipei City
country: Taiwan
facility: Department of Nursing
Study officials:
affiliation: Department of Nursing, Mackay Medical College
name: Sheng-Miauh Huang, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Huang SM, Tseng LM, Lien PJ. Effects of naturalistic decision-making model-based oncofertility care education for nurses and patients with breast cancer: a cluster randomized controlled trial. Support Care Cancer. 2022 Oct;30(10):8313-8322. doi: 10.1007/s00520-022-07279-w. Epub 2022 Jul 15.