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Nursing Guidelines on Safety Measures Awareness among Patients with Thyroid Disorders undergoing Radioactive Iodine Therapy

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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Background: Radioactive iodine therapy (RAIT) is a highly effective therapy for thyroid cancer and is usually general in patients with various thyroid diseases. Safety is considered an essential plan in treating patients suffering from cancer with iodine-131. Aim of the study: was to evaluate the effect of nursing guidelines on safety measures awareness among patients with thyroid disorders undergoing Radioactive Iodine Therapy.  Study design: A quasi-experiment study design was used to achieve aim of the study. Setting: The outpatient clinics of the Nuclear Medicine Center for radioactive iodine therapy at Ain Shams University Hospital. Cairo. Egypt. Sample: A Purposive sample of 50 patients was participated in the current study. Tools: Data were collected using three tools as follows: Tool1: Patient Interview Questionnaire (pre/post and follow up). Tool 2. Swallowing exercise observational checklist (pre/post and follow up), and Tool 3- Complications assessment tool (pre/post and follow up).  Results: there was significant improvement in patient`s  knowledge, awareness regarding the safety measures of RAIT, patient`s practice of swallowing exercises and significant decreasing in occurrence of short and long term complications after nursing guidelines implementation. Conclusion: It was concluded that nursing guidelines have a positive effect in increasing patient`s knowledge, patient`s awareness of safety measures, swallowing exercises practice, and reducing the incidence of treatment complications. Recommendation: Continuous educational guidelines should be constructed and implemented about safety measures to the patients with thyroid diseases and receiving RAIT.

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10.21608/ejhc.2024.348509

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nursing guidelines, Safety measures awareness, Radioactive iodine therapy

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Mohamed Elmetwaly

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Assistant professor of Medical Surgical Nursing Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University, Egypt.

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Said Ali

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Assistant professor of Medical Surgical Nursing Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University, Egypt.

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Nabil Abd Elsalam

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Assistant professor of Medical Surgical Nursing Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University, Egypt.

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Eldin Moussa Sherif

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Assistant professor of Oncology medicine- Ain Shams University

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Metwaly Elsayed

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Lecturer of Physics Radiation Oncology - Ain Shams University

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15

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44826

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2024-03-01

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2024-04-02

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2024-03-01

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1687-9546

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3009-6766

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Egyptian Journal of Health Care

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Nursing Guidelines on Safety Measures Awareness among Patients with Thyroid Disorders undergoing Radioactive Iodine Therapy

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24 Dec 2024