Effectiveness of intervention Nurse in adaptation and coping capacity of caregivers of brain cancer operated with behavioral changes

Abstract

Introduction: There is a high incidence of family caregivers of patients operated on for brain tumor with behavioral disorders who do not manifest satisfactory adaptation or coping, therefore requiring nursing intervention.

Objective: To assess the effectiveness of a nursing intervention in adaptation and coping capacity of family caregivers of adolescents and young people operated on for brain tumor with behavioral changes.

Methods: Pre-experimental study with pre- and post-test carried out, during 2018, at Faustino Pérez Hernández University Hospital of Matanzas, Cuba. The universe was 93 family caregivers. The information was obtained from the variable adaptation-coping capacity, using the Coping and Adaptation Processing Scale (CAPS); the nursing intervention was based on the four modes of adaptation defined within Callista Roy's theory. The information was processed using distributions of absolute frequencies, percentage, mean, standard deviation, variance, minimum and maximum values. The association between variables was obtained using the non-parametric Wilcoxon test, under the decision rule If P ≤ 0.05, then Ho is rejected.

Results: The adaptation-coping capacity of family caregivers of patients operated on for brain tumor with behavioral changes was different between the measurements made before and after the nursing intervention based on Roy's theory (z=-8.391, P<0.05)

Conclusions: The nursing intervention based on Callista Roy's adaptation model was effective with regard to the adaptation and coping capacity of family caregivers of adolescents and young people operated on for brain tumor with behavioral changes.