Poster Presentation
Monday, July 7, 2008
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM
Monday, July 7, 2008
2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
The Study of Effects on the Chemotherapy Program of Nurses' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practice toward Chemotherapy
Tao-Hsin Tung, PhD, Department of Medical Research and Education, Cheng-Hsin General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Hui-Chuan Shih, MSN, Department of Nursing, Kaohsiung Armed Forces General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and Yung Ming, RN, MSN, Nursing Department, Kaohsiung Armed Forces General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
| Learning Objective #1: To explore the difference of nurses’ knowledge, attitudes, and practice toward chemotherapy by training program. |
| Learning Objective #2: To study how to conduct a well-organized randomized controlled trial in the clinical study. |
The present study is conducted a systematic program of chemotherapy to explore the difference of nurses' knowledge, attitudes, and practice toward chemotherapy. Based on the randomized controlled study design, sixty nursing staff were divided into experimental (E: received systematic chemotherapy training program) and control group (C: not received training program). The results showed that after the intervention, experimental group had significant higher knowledge scores (11.86°"1.38) than control group (7.94°"2.05) in the posttest (p=0.01) but not pretest (E: 7.56°"1.13 vs C: 7.23°"1.74, p=0.24). The experimental group also had significant higher attitude scores (21.31„b2.31) than control group (17.70°"2.11) in the posttest (p<0.001) but not pretest (E: 18.00°"1.93 vs C: 17.83°"2.10, p=0.11). The practice scores showed the similar findings (pretest, E: 6.75°"1.04 vs C:6.67°"1.00, p=0.09; posttest, E: 11.64°"1.66 vs C: 6.81°"0.97, p<0.001). In conclusion, to set up educational courses of chemotherapy for clinical nurses should be able to improve knowledge and attitude and then promote the correct behavior.