فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

Abstract  Background and aimIn women with cancer, the quality of life and their performance level would be affected, thusawareness about patient quality of life helps the nurses to lead their care for improving the patients’quality of life. Despite of majority of performed studies, the emphasis is on patients’ problemsrather than families, So it is necessary for improving the patient quality of life to take intoconsideration those factors which are important for family .The purpose of this study was todetermine the effect of consultation with family on performance scale of women’s quality of lifewith breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy.Materials and methodsThis research is a semi-experimental study,70 married women aged 30-55 years old who had atleast 1child older than 15 year , undergoing chemotherapy with previous record of mastectomyand they have been referred to clinics located in two cities, Qazvin and Zanjan, were included inthe study. Participants were allocated in two -experiment and control-groups. For subjects inexperiment group 8 consultation sessions with family was designed, the sessions were held withthe presence of patient, spouse and children .The patients’ quality of life in both groups wasmeasured at the beginning and at the end of final consultation session. Quality of life was assessedby the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire(EORTC QLQ-C30) and its supplementary breast cancer measure (QLQ-BR23) .The data wereanalyzed using SPSS version 15.FindingsResults showed that quality of life of patients who had participated in consultation sessions wasimproved (P