Body Image Disorder Clinical Trial
Official title:
Prevention of Body Image Disorder by Nurse Intervention on the Patient and Family Prior to Breast and Colon Surgery
This is a non-blinded, randomized, controlled clinical trial consisting of 64 participants, which aims to assess the effectiveness of a nursing intervention for family members and patients prior to surgery to prevent body image disorder in breast cancer operated subjects. or colon (32 participants), compared to the intervention limited only to patients (32 participants).
Cancer is one of the most important public health problems on a global scale in the 21st
century. The National Institute of Neoplastic Diseases highlights, among the most frequent
neoplasms, prostate cancer, colon-rectum, lung in men and breast, colon-rectum in women.
One of the main treatments to be able to approach this type of tumors, such as breast and
colorectal, is surgery. There are different surgical procedures (conservative surgery,
mastectomy, ostomy) that, in a forceful way, affect the body image of the individual,
sometimes generating extreme and painful situations. They are procedures that carry
biopsychosocial implications and that generate a change in lifestyle.
A better psychological preparation and an effective health education of the patient prior to
surgery (consisting of providing the information of the intervention, providing psychological
support during the entire surgical process and reporting on the changes that will occur),
balance the characteristic stressful trait of surgery, thus decreasing the level of anxiety
of the individual.
In order for the patient to overcome this change in his body image, the role played by his
immediate family member is fundamental, not only because it helps him improve the quality of
life that he will have during the course of his illness, but also because an adequate
emotional state can improve the patient's therapeutic response.
The objective of this study was to evaluate the body image disorder suffered by patients with
breast and colorectal cancer after undergoing surgery, comparing the group that received a
previous nursing intervention with their immediate family member, compared to the patients
who received this intervention without him.
A randomized, non-blinded, controlled clinical trial was conducted. The study consisted of
performing a nursing intervention prior to breast and colon surgery to both groups, giving
health education divided into four phases: providing information on the disease, showing
surgeries and similar experiences, explaining coping methods and reporting on techniques of
relaxing.
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