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What is the project about?
This project is looking at how confident patients feel about being able to manage their side effects during chemotherapy treatment, and whether this affects the kinds of things that they do for their side effects during their treatment.
How is the research carried out?
Patients are asked to complete a questionnaire booklet, which asks about confidence and how patients are feeling about their diagnosis and starting treatment. They also fill in a self care diary, which asks them to record the side effects that they have experienced and the things they have done to deal with these. Patients are also asked to take part in interviews at the start of their treatment, to discuss how they are feeling about starting treatment and how they expect to cope with it. They are also interviewed at the end of their treatment to discuss how their treatment has been for them and how they have coped with side effects.
What are the findings expected to add to current practice?
It is intended that this project will help us to identify whether patients’ confidence affects how they cope with treatment-related side effects, and therefore, we can plan how best to build patients’ confidence and how best to support them in managing their side effects.
What is the current stage of the project?
Data collection is now completed, the results are currently being analysed and the thesis written up.
When will the project be completed?
Thesis was submitted in March 2007.
Funding Information
Faculty Studentship, University of Stirling.