Symptom Management, Education and Telephone Follow-up, Quality of Life,

Prostate Cancer Clinical Trial

Official title: The Effect of Education and Telephone Follow-up on Quality of Life and Symptom Management in Patients Receiving Androgen Deprivation Therapy

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

This study was planned as an experimental design study with pretest-posttest control group in order to determine the effects of education and telephone follow-up given to patients receiving androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for prostate cancer on quality of life and symptom management.The main question[s] it aims to answer are:

• Is the quality of life higher in patients receiving androgen deprivation therapy who are trained and followed up over the phone compared to patients who are only given an education booklet?

• Is symptom management higher in patients receiving androgen deprivation therapy who received training and followed-up over the phone compared to patients who were only given an education booklet?

Clinical Trial Description

The number of samples to be taken in each group was determined as 24 (total 48) with the help of the G-power (version 3.1) package program. Considering the possible losses in the research and in order to increase the power of the study, it was planned to carry out the research with a total of 60 people, 30 people in the experimental and control groups.

While evaluating the findings obtained in the study, SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) version 25.0 (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA) program will be used for statistical analysis. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Prostate Cancer
• Prostatic Neoplasms

• NCT number: NCT05613881
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Istanbul University - Cerrahpasa (IUC)
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: May 15, 2022
• Completion date: December 1, 2022