Effects of preoperative personal education on shoulder function and lymphedema in patients with breast cancer: A consort.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To compare the incidence and severity of ipsilateral shoulder dysfunction and lymphedema of 2 groups of patients needing to undergo unilateral breast cancer surgery, one of which had only received printed education materials and the other group which had received educational materials plus preoperative education.

Methods

We selected 61 patients who had been diagnosed with unilateral breast cancer and planned to undergo surgery. Before surgery, patients were randomly assigned, either to a control group that only received printed education materials about exercise for shoulder pain relief and lymphatic edema prevention following breast cancer surgery, or to an experimental group that received the printed education material with personal education. Participants were

SUBMITTER: Byun H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9509096 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature