ArticleJournal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education2022
"Teachable Moment": Effects of an Educational Program on Knowledge and Quality of Life of Korean Breast Cancer Survivors.
Article in Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Due to prolonged survival and the relatively young median age of patients, the quality of life (QOL) of breast cancer survivors is an important issue in Korea. We conducted an educational program for breast cancer survivors, and evaluated its impact on knowledge, QOL, and lifestyle changes. This study utilized a single-arm pretest-posttest design. Participants were tested before and after an educational program to measure changes in knowledge. To measure QOL change, we conducted a QOL survey at the time of enrollment and again 6 months later. Regarding the knowledge test, mean scores increased from 9.62 to 14.74 points following education (p < 0.001). After 6 months, 97 patients completed the QOL survey and the data were analyzed, showing significant improvements in anxiety (p = 0.021), depression (p = 0.003), functional well-being (p = 0.005), and breast cancer subscales of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Breast Cancer (FACT-B) (p < 0.001). Additionally, the rates of adequate exercise significantly improved (p < 0.001), while rates of alcohol consumption and second cancer screening did not significantly change. One educational program session can improve patient knowledge, QOL, and psychosocial well-being, but is insufficient to achieve significant changes in health behavior.
Indexed as
Identifiers
33025451What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.