3. RESULTS
The care of children with ALL using systematic educational
strategies is not considered part of their daily care. The
NANDA NIC-NOC methodology was produced in a framework of providing care to families with an ALL child to test
the effectiveness of the P-LEA strategy. For this purpose, two
categories were considered: the level of knowledge of the disease process, adverse effects of medication and precautions
for preventing treatment complications and the interest in
learning displayed by the caregiver as indicated by receipt of
instruction, response to instruction and value of instruction.
These results will be presented according to the categories
and indicators:
3.1 Knowledge
To measure the dependent variable NOC knowledge, three
measurements were performed. One measurement was obtained pre-instruction, and two measurements were obtained
subsequent to the intervention: one immediately after the
P-LEA program and 30 days after the end of the program.
The following observations were made concerning the level
of knowledge of caregivers of children with ALL:
As shown in Figure 1, prior to the implementation of the PLEA program, approximately half of the caregivers already
had a moderate level of knowledge on the subject. After the
implementation of the program, more than three fourths of
caregivers had acquired an extensive level of knowledge; a
further increase of 10% was observed at the second measurement post intervention.
This result was obtained using the indicators developed according to the NOC outcome labels “management of the
cancer” and “disease process”.
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