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Effectiveness of an Educational Program on Self-Care Management of Colostomy Patients

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Background: Colostomy is crucial in the treatment of many gastrointestinal problems and has long been one of the procedures that save lives in the globe. Colostomy can be used for many causes as bowel diseases, anastomotic site protection, stool diversion, or a combination of these. Self-care management program is vital for supporting, educating and improving patients' self-care practice with colostomy. Aim: To evaluate the effect of an educational program on self-care management of colostomy patients'. Subject and Method: Design, Quasi-experimental design (one group). Setting: This study was conducted in the outpatient department of Al-Azhar University Hospital, New Damietta City. Subjects: The sample size was 50 patients. Tools: Three tools were used for data collections: Tool I: structure interview questionnaire to assess knowledge of patients' self-care management regarding colostomy care, Tool II: Patient's observational checklist to assess patient practice for colostomy care and Tool III:  Stoma care Self - Efficacy scale to assess coping with difficulties of daily colostomy care. The Results: there was improvement in patients' knowledge, self-care practice and self-efficacy post program implementation with highly significant difference between pre and post program implementation (p<0.005). Conclusion: the educational program had positive effect to improve patients' knowledge, self-care practice and self-efficacy regarding colostomy care. Recommendations: In order to confirm the findings and generalizability, more studies should be conducted on a larger number of colostomy patients.

DOI

10.21608/pssjn.2023.215532.1264

Keywords

Colostomy, Educational Program, Self-Care, Self-care management

Authors

First Name

Hayat

Last Name

Abdelkader

MiddleName

Ahmed

Affiliation

medical surgical nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Port Said University,

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hayat.mohamad@nur.psu.edu.eg

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port-said

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First Name

Fatma

Last Name

Belal

MiddleName

Belal

Affiliation

Damietta

Email

fatmabelal733@gmail.com

City

Damietta

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First Name

Naglaa

Last Name

Mahdy

MiddleName

EL-Sayed

Affiliation

Department of Internal and Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Cairo

Email

dr_hager78@yahoo.com

City

cairo

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First Name

Mona

Last Name

Mohammed

MiddleName

Abd ELRhamen

Affiliation

Medical-Surgical, Nursing Faculty of Nursing, Port Said University.

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monayasser@yahoo.com

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port-said

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Volume

10

Article Issue

4

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43494

Issue Date

2023-12-01

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2023-06-13

Publish Date

2023-12-30

Page Start

334

Page End

361

Print ISSN

2356-8658

Online ISSN

2682-3241

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https://pssjn.journals.ekb.eg/article_331170.html

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866

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Port Said Scientific Journal of Nursing

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https://pssjn.journals.ekb.eg/

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Effectiveness of an Educational Program on Self-Care Management of Colostomy Patients

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24 Dec 2024