Figure 2. Average of pre and post intervention puntuaction
of knowledge of caregivers of children with acute
lymphoblastic leukemia. Teaching: Group intervention of
program P-LEA (n = 30)
Source: Caregiver Knowledge Measurement Instrument
(MCC-García)
3.2 Notable results for learning by caregivers
As providers of care, caregivers must develop their learning skills to better assist their children through oncological
treatment, from living the disease process to providing care,
the implications and effects of the chemotherapy treatment
and the nutrition they provide the child throughout different
stages of the disease.
The caregiver’s interest in learning was only evaluated during
the development of the instructional intervention. This evaluation occurred during the P-LEA program sessions: “disease
process”, “treatment of ALL”, “recommendations for feeding the child with ALL”, and “care of immunosuppression
in children with ALL”.
In the “disease process” and “treatment of ALL” sessions,
the majority of the population always received the instruction (86.7%), and three fourths always valued the instruction
(73.3%). However, only half sometimes responded to the
instruction (46.7%).
In the “recommendations for feeding the child with ALL”
session, the majority of the population always received instruction (90%), 63.3% responded to the instruction, and
73.3% valued the instruction.
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In the “care of immunosuppression in children with ALL”
session, the majority of the population always received instruction (96.7%), and 93.3% valued the instruction. More
than half of the population almost always (53.3%) responded
to the instruction.