Abstract

• Purpose
  The effects of telephone intervention on self-care practices and quality of life for gynecological cancer patients under chemotherapy was investigated.
• Methods
  A non-equivalent control group pre-test post-test quasi-experimental design was used. The subjects were women cancer patients who had received less than two chemotherapy sessions at C university hospital of Chonnam province(26 in the experimental group: 25 in the control group). The patient's self-care practices(Na & Lee, 1999; Jang, 2004) and quality of life(Lee & Jo, 1997) were measured three times. using a questionnaire. The data was analyzed by Repeated Measures ANOVA, the Friedman test, and the Mann-Whitney test using the SPSS window version 12.0 program.
• Results
  This study showed that the score of self-care practices and quality of life for the experimental group under telephone counseling were higher than those of the control group.
• Conclusion
  This study revealed that a telephone intervention as supportive nursing care for women cancer patients under going chemotherapy was effective for self-care practices and qualify of life during the recovery period. Futhermore, this study also suggests that telephone counseling can serve as a continuing nursing supportive intervention for women cancer patients for the upcoming stages of further chemotherapy.
• Keywords: Chemotherapy; Health education; Self-care; Quality of life

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