OBJECTIVE Postoperative patients with gastrointestinal (GI) cancer have multiple adaptation tasks and care needs to improve their quality of life (QOL). Whether their supportive care needs differ according to their physical and psychosocial conditions is unclear. This study investigated patients' (1) physical and psychosocial conditions (QOL, fatigue, anxiety, cognitive plight, and resilience) ...

BACKGROUND There has been limited research examining the efficacy of providing written information to cancer patients in southern and eastern European countries. This study investigated the impact of a booklet about chemotherapy on patient satisfaction, quality of life (QoL) and emotional distress, and assessed booklet use. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 145 Greek cancer outpatients prior to...

Under Kenyan guidelines, HIV-exposed infants should be tested for HIV DNA at 6 weeks or at first clinical contact thereafter, as infants come for immunization. Following the introduction of early infant diagnoses programmes, however, many infants were not being tested and linked to care and treatment. We developed the Mother & Child Health Booklet to help relate mothers' obstetrical history to ...

BACKGROUND Statins are generally well tolerated and effective at reducing a patient's risk of both primary and secondary cardiovascular events. Many patients who would benefit from statin therapy either do not adhere to or stop taking their statin medication within the first year. We developed an audio booklet targeted to low health literacy patients to teach them about the benefits and risks o...

BACKGROUND Training methods that enhance nurses' learning and retention will increase the quality of patient care. This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of electronic learning and educational booklet on the nurses' retention of diabetes updates. METHODS In this controlled trial study, convenience sampling was used to select 123 nurses from the endocrinology and internal medicine wards...

OBJECTIVE To determine the clinical and cost effectiveness of booklet based vestibular rehabilitation with and without telephone support for chronic dizziness, compared with routine care. DESIGN Single blind, parallel group, pragmatic, randomised controlled trial. SETTING 35 general practices across southern England between October 2008 and January 2011. PARTICIPANTS Patients aged 18 year...

V ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS When writing a booklet about a topic that is under rapid development such as the clinical introduction of an advanced treatment technique like IMRT, there is a chance that at the time of publication many solutions might already be obsolete or replaced by other approaches. We therefore greatly appreciate very much that we got the latest information from the participating centr...

A randomised controlled trial has shown that introducing a health education booklet describing the management of six common symptoms resulted in fewer consultations for the symptoms described by families receiving this booklet compared with a control group. A sample of the mothers in each group was subsequently followed up by an interview, at which a questionnaire was administered. This was des...

BACKGROUND Families of patients with advanced dementia need to be informed about the course of the dementia and comfort care. Conditional for health care providers educating families is their knowledge and comfort in family education. METHODS Perceived usefulness and acceptability of a Canadian family booklet explaining possible complications and comfort care in dementia was assessed by physi...