%0 Journal Article
%T Evaluation of the efficacy of nursing strategies to diminish fear among cancer patients. A case control study
%A Flor de Mar¨ªa C¨¢ceres Manrique
%A Floribel Boh¨®rquez Caballero
%A Henry Mauricio Puerto Pedraza
%A Diana Smith Hern¨¢ndez
%J MedUNAB
%D 2004
%I Universidad Aut¨®noma de Bucaramanga
%X Cancer is a catastrophic illness that is responsible for a 10millions new cases, world wide. In Colombia, after homicidesand cardiovascular diseases, cancer is a major publichealth problem. Therefore, there is an incentive for nursesto intervene these patients, in order to get a substantial reductionof their natural fear for cancer treatment. We made acase controlled study to evaluated the variance of ¡°control ofpatient¡¯s fear¡± label scale. Patients were randomly assignedinto two groups: the experimental group, got the interventionsrecommended by the nursing process classifi cation; theother one, got the usual interventions provided by the nursesservices. We compare both results using the co-variancemethod. We found a difference of 0.75 (IC 95% 0.40-1.10)points in favor of the intervened group. Nursing interventionsamong cancer patients diminish their fear for treatment, areeffi cacious and well recommended.
%K fear
%K cancer
%K nursing process
%K case-contro study
%U http://caribdis.unab.edu.co/pls/portal/docs/PAGE/REVISTAMEDUNAB/NUMEROSANTERIORES/REVISTA721/OP_2.PDF