Clinical trial NCT05788809: Communication Skill and Related Factors Among Oncology Nurses
Official title: Communication Skill and Related Factors Among Oncology Nurses
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Oncology
Nurse
Communication
Keywords: Oncology nurse
Communication skill
Lead sponsor: National Taiwan University Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2023-03-29
Enrollment: 527
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 20
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Nurse who are over 20 years old (inclusive) and care cancer patients currently. Patient who are over 20 years old (inclusive) and diagnosed with cancer.

Brief summary: This study is a 1-year quantitative method research.Data collection will be divided into oncology nurses and cancer patients.To explore the related factors of clinical oncology nurses on the psychological aspects of cancer patients.

Detailed description: Background:Nurses who care for cancer patients on the front line play an important role in the psychological care, distress assessment and management of cancer patients. Most of these cancer patients do not directly express their concerns to the nursing staff. Nursing staff should be able to assess and identify psychological needs through verbal and non-verbal messages during the nursing period, and provide effective information, general psychological support and rich psychological support in nursing measures. The ability to communicate empathetically and avoid ignoring psychological needs that may cause distress to the patient. Therefore, an in-depth understanding of the first-line tumor nurses interacting with patients, and the related factors that affect communication with patients, such as workload, fatigue, self-confidence, etc., are crucial factors for detecting psychological problems in cancer patients. It directly affects the body and mind of cancer patients, and exploring its related factors is of course an important topic.

Purpose: Understand current clinical oncology nurses, work load, emotional state, self-confidence, comfort ability, empathy and communication ability related factors, and add patients' measurement of nursing staff's communication ability, empathy and satisfaction, through nurses The results of the patients and nurses are closer to the current clinical situation.

Method:This study is a 1-year quantitative method research. It is a cross-sectional descriptive correlation research, using a structured questionnaire to collect data which will be collected by oncology nurses and cancer patients.

Eligibility criteria: Nurse

Inclusion Criteria:

* Over 20 years old (inclusive).
* Nursing staff who are currently working in cancer-related positions and have clinical contact or care for patients.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Nurse who have resigned.

Patient

Inclusion Criteria:

* Over 20 years old (inclusive).
* Diagnosed as a cancer patient by doctors.
* Patients who are known disease status.
* Patients who are currently hospitalized in cancer wards.

Exclusion Criteria:

* People with mental illness.
* Those who are unconscious and unable to complete the interview for this study with language or conversation.
* Those who are unwilling to accept interviews and participate in research surveys.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Communication skills
timeFrame: 1 time points: From date of approaching patient until the date of first documented progression or date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 100 months.
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Physical and Psychological state scale
timeFrame: 1 time points: From date of approaching patient until the date of first documented progression or date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 100 months.
measure: The pressure source of work
timeFrame: 1 time points: From date of approaching patient until the date of first documented progression or date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 100 months.
measure: Self efficacy scale (GSES)
timeFrame: 1 time points: From date of approaching patient until the date of first documented progression or date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 100 months.
measure: Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy - Spiritual Well-Being (FACIT-Sp)
timeFrame: 1 time points: From date of approaching patient until the date of first documented progression or date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 100 months.
measure: Efferson Empathy Scale
timeFrame: 1 time points: From date of approaching patient until the date of first documented progression or date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 100 months.
measure: Newcastle Satisfaction with Nursing Scale(NSNS)
timeFrame: 1 time points: From date of approaching patient until the date of first documented progression or date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 100 months.
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Taipei
country: Taiwan
facility: National Taiwan University Hospital
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