الفهرس 
IntroductionOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
 |  | from | 195 |  |  |
| | | from | 195 | | |
Abstract
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Egyptians are the most susceptible to lung cancer, as a result of ignorance of the disease and the lack of awareness about the symptoms of the disease. Egypt was among the 21 countries surveyed and the percentage of people who are ignorant of the disease reached 48%, with only one in every four people aware of the most common symptom, which is shortness of breath (CDC, 2015).
Pulmonary rehabilitation is a comprehensive intervention based on a thorough patient assessment followed by patient-tailored therapies that include, but are not limited to, exercise training, education and behavior change, designed to improve the physical and psychological condition of people with chronic respiratory disease and to promote the long-term adherence to health-enhancing behavior (Nici, Donner, Wouters, Zuwallack, Ambrosino and Bourbeau, 2016).
Aim of the study:
The study aimed to assess the effectiveness of rehabilitative nursing intervention on quality of life for patients with lung cancer.
Research design:
A Quasi experimental research design was used.
Research Setting:
Out-patient clinic in oncology department, Menoufia university hospital, Shebin EI Kom district at Menoufia Governorate.
The study sample:
A purposive sample composed of 100 patients with lung. They were divided into 2 groups 50 patients as a study group who received rehabilitative nursing interventions and 50 patients as a control group who received routine hospital care (n= 100).they were selected and matched by their age and disease grade.
Tools of the study:
Data was collected by using the following tools:
I: A structured Interview questionnaire which include two parts:
Part 1: Socio-demographic characteristics data such as name, age, gender, occupation, marital status, education, residence.
Part 2: Present medical history about lung cancer including how patient was diagnosed with lung cancer, onset of disease, stages of lung cancer, type of lung cancer treatment, onset of treatment,……………………
Part 3:
A- personal habits as smoking and number of cigarettes per day and for how many years or exposure to passive smoking for how many hours per day and for how many years……...
B- Narcotics addiction including type of the narcotics used, amount that was taken per day and for how many years………………..
II: Anthropometric measurement as weight.
III: Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy Lung, Version 4 (FACT-L v. 4), it is modified by David Cella (2007). The original QOLS created originally by American psychologist john Flanagan in the 1970 it is a 15-item to measured five conceptual domains of quality of life: physical and material well-being, relationships with other people, social, community and civic activities, personal development and fulfillment, and recreation (Berzon, Donnelly, Simpson, Jr, Simeon et al., 2011).
FACT-L v. 4 is a 36 item to measure five conceptual domains of quality of life: Physical, social/family, emotional, and functional well-being. It is a Four-point scale from 0 (not at all) to 4 (very much).
The main results of the study showed that:
The mean age of the intervention group was 43.02±6.22 compared to 42.92±9.50 among control group.
The higher percentage of intervention group had a high education level, married, and lived in rural areas, working in chemical& fertilizers factories.
There was a significant relationship between family history and occurrence of lung cancer.
Regarding causes of lung cancer; the higher percentage (44%) of studied groups had lung cancer due to recurrent pneumonia.
The higher percentage (82%&74%) of the studied patients with lung cancer was smokers and had a history of smoking shisha or/and goza.
There was a significant improvement in all feeding habits among intervention group in post intervention compared to pre intervention, while for control group feeding habits were deteriorated.
The mean score for body weight of the intervention group was increased post intervention.