Research Proposal Part B
The effect of a nursing intervention on promoting self-care ability in breast cancer patients after breast surgery
Background
Self-care is one of the most important parts in post-operative patients’ further life and health recovery. Specific nursing intervention in the post-operative period is essential in promoting healing and improving patient’s quality of life. The purpose of this research is to analyse the effect of a nurse-directed intervention on post-operative self-care ability in breast cancer patients to find out the relationship between a nurse-directed intervention and self-care agency variables. A three-month quantitative quasi-experimental design will be performed using non-random sample of 60 participants. The intervention group will be provided nurse-directed intervention; whereas the control group will be not. Both group participants’ self-care ability will be assessed using ESCA Scale, demographic data also will be collected. Design
A quasi-experimental nonequivalent control group design (Borbasi & Jackson, 2011) will be used due to the study’s circumstances. Quasi-experimental design typically involves a comparison of groups (intervention group involved in the nursing intervention and control group not involved in the nursing intervention), and also it uses a non-manipulated variable to define two groups being compared pre-test and post-test (Borbasi & Jackson, 2011). Non-equivalent control group design is not equivalent on variables (Jirojwong, Johnson & Welch, 2011). Using a quasi-experimental non equivalent control design to evaluate the effect of the nursing intervention on promoting self-care ability for post-operative breast cancer patients does not need to meet all necessary requirements for controlling influences of extraneous variables. Moreover, it is not necessary for the researcher to control the assignment of individuals to groups in order to be easy to implement (Jirojwong, Johnson & Welch, 2011). These uncontrolled variables
Background
Self-care is one of the most important parts in post-operative patients’ further life and health recovery. Specific nursing intervention in the post-operative period is essential in promoting healing and improving patient’s quality of life. The purpose of this research is to analyse the effect of a nurse-directed intervention on post-operative self-care ability in breast cancer patients to find out the relationship between a nurse-directed intervention and self-care agency variables. A three-month quantitative quasi-experimental design will be performed using non-random sample of 60 participants. The intervention group will be provided nurse-directed intervention; whereas the control group will be not. Both group participants’ self-care ability will be assessed using ESCA Scale, demographic data also will be collected. Design
A quasi-experimental nonequivalent control group design (Borbasi & Jackson, 2011) will be used due to the study’s circumstances. Quasi-experimental design typically involves a comparison of groups (intervention group involved in the nursing intervention and control group not involved in the nursing intervention), and also it uses a non-manipulated variable to define two groups being compared pre-test and post-test (Borbasi & Jackson, 2011). Non-equivalent control group design is not equivalent on variables (Jirojwong, Johnson & Welch, 2011). Using a quasi-experimental non equivalent control design to evaluate the effect of the nursing intervention on promoting self-care ability for post-operative breast cancer patients does not need to meet all necessary requirements for controlling influences of extraneous variables. Moreover, it is not necessary for the researcher to control the assignment of individuals to groups in order to be easy to implement (Jirojwong, Johnson & Welch, 2011). These uncontrolled variables