Bassah Nahyeni, Tendongfor Nicholas, Ebob-Anya Bachi-Ayukokang, Eta Vivian A E, Esembeson Malika, Ngah Ndzi Eric, Abdul-Rahim Salisu Ango
Department of Nursing, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon.
Department of Public Health and Hygiene, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon.
JMIR Res Protoc. 2025 Jan 3;14:e64871. doi: 10.2196/64871.
Cancer is a leading cause of global mortality, accounting for nearly 10 million deaths in 2020. This is projected to increase by more than 60% by 2040, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Yet, palliative and psychosocial oncology care is very limited in these countries.
This study describes a protocol for the development, implementation, and evaluation of a psychosocial oncology and palliative care course on Cameroonian practicing nurses' knowledge, self-perceived competence, and confidence in palliative and psychosocial oncology care provision for patients with cancer.
A single group pre-posttest design, incorporating both quantitative and qualitative methods will be used. First, a psychosocial oncology and palliative care course for practicing nurses in Cameroon will be developed. This course will then be implemented with 50 practicing nurses purposefully selected from 2 oncology units in the Littoral region and 4 hospitals in the Southwest region of Cameroon. Finally, to assess the impact of the training program we will undertake a pre and posttest survey of nurses' palliative and psychosocial oncology competences, a pre and post training audit of patients' nursing records to examine nurses' practice of palliative and psychosocial oncology care and undertake a critical-incident interview of nurses' transfer of learning to practice. Descriptive and inferential statistics will be used to analysis quantitative data, while qualitative data will be analyzed using the framework approach.
This study was funded in September 2023. The training program development was initiated in March 2024 and completed in June 2024. Baseline data collection commenced in May 2024 and as of September 2024, we had collected data from 300 patient record. Training implementation is planned for October-December 2024, and post intervention data will be started in October 2024 and continue till April 2025. Data analysis will commence in October 2024 and we aim to publish study findings in peer review journals by November 2025.
This study will improve our understanding of Cameroonian nurses' palliative and psychosocial oncology competency gaps. It will result in the development of a palliative care and psychosocial oncology course and in the training of 50 nurses in psychosocial oncology and palliative care in Cameroon. This study will inform strategies for future psychosocial oncology and palliative care training initiatives in Cameroon and other low- and middle-income countries.
INTERNATIONAL REGISTERED REPORT IDENTIFIER (IRRID): DERR1-10.2196/64871.
癌症是全球主要死因，2020年导致近1000万人死亡。预计到2040年这一数字将增长60%以上，尤其是在低收入和中等收入国家。然而，这些国家的姑息治疗和心理社会肿瘤学护理非常有限。
本研究描述了一项关于为喀麦隆执业护士开发、实施和评估心理社会肿瘤学和姑息治疗课程的方案，该课程涉及癌症患者姑息治疗和心理社会肿瘤学护理方面的知识、自我认知能力和信心。
将采用单组前后测设计，结合定量和定性方法。首先，为喀麦隆的执业护士开发一门心理社会肿瘤学和姑息治疗课程。然后，该课程将由从喀麦隆滨海地区的2个肿瘤科室和西南地区的4家医院中特意挑选的50名执业护士参与实施。最后，为评估培训项目的影响，我们将对护士的姑息治疗和心理社会肿瘤学能力进行前后测调查，对患者护理记录进行培训前后审核，以检查护士在姑息治疗和心理社会肿瘤学护理方面的实践情况，并对护士将所学知识应用于实践的情况进行关键事件访谈。描述性和推断性统计将用于分析定量数据，而定性数据将使用框架方法进行分析。
本研究于2023年9月获得资助。培训项目开发于2024年3月启动并于2024年6月完成。基线数据收集于2024年5月开始，截至2024年9月，我们已从300份患者记录中收集了数据。培训计划于2024年10月至12月实施，干预后数据将于2024年10月开始并持续至2025年4月。数据分析将于2024年10月开始，我们的目标是在2025年11月前在同行评审期刊上发表研究结果。
本研究将增进我们对喀麦隆护士在姑息治疗和心理社会肿瘤学能力差距方面的理解。它将促成一门姑息治疗和心理社会肿瘤学课程的开发，并培训喀麦隆50名护士在心理社会肿瘤学和姑息治疗方面的技能。本研究将为喀麦隆及其他低收入和中等收入国家未来的心理社会肿瘤学和姑息治疗培训举措提供策略依据。
国际注册报告识别码（IRRID）：DERR1-10.2196/64871
