Learning Objective #1: Understand the self-care and symptomatic distress on neobladder recipients in South Taiwan

Learning Objective #2: Identify the symptomatic distress influencing factors of neobladder recipients

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Background: Symptomatic distress was the mainly problem after Neobladder recipients had been shown in many literatures. Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of demographic characteristics, self-care and symptomatic distress in Neobladder recipients. Methods: Cross-sectional and correlational study was conducted. The purposive sampling was applied to recruit appropriate samples from a hospital in southern Taiwan. Fifty subjects were participated and the data was collected by interview with structure questionnaire. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistic, one-way ANOVA, correlation and stepwise regression. Results: The results indicated that: there are significant differences among complication, complete continence duration and symptomatic distress. Self-care, incontinence caused and length of hospital stay were positively correlated with symptomatic distress. Three factors could explain 48.3 % of the variance of symptomatic distress: including length of hospital stay, self-care and complete continence duration, which explained 31.8 %, 11.3, and 5.2 %. Conclusions: The appropriate appraisal support of health professionals might improve the patient's symptomatic distress. Therefore, the results of this study may help nurses to provide better quality of care for Neobladder recipients with the symptomatic distress.