Abstract
Introduction: The contribution of nurses in improving the quality of life of patients with cancer has caused them to have needs of getting knowledge and skills to provide services on psychosexual health care. Training on psychosexual health care has been developed, implemented and given to oncology nurses in Indonesia in order to fulfill the needs so that the nurses are able to provide psychosexual health care to cancer survivors and their spouse. Method: The training utilized a method of pre- and post-test evaluation to identify outcomes including changes of evaluation scores of knowledge, belief, practice, and self-efficacy of trainees before and after receiving psychosexual health care training. Result: The training has been implemented on 46 oncology nurses in Indonesia so that they can have knowledge, practice, belief and self-efficacy in providing psychosexual health care to patients with cancer and their spouse. After training and mentorship had been provided, there were significant changes on knowledge, belief and self-efficacy in providing psychosexual health care services to patients with cancer and their spouse; however, there were no significant changes on practices. Discussion: The training has become a standard nursing care for cancer in Indonesia and has provided scientific evidences that nurses have contribution in improving quality of life of patients with cancer by providing a comprehensive nursing care through implementation of psychosexual health care in their daily nursing care for patients with cancer and their spouse. Keywords: Psychosexual health care, training, nursing, cancer
Highlights
The contribution of nurses in improving the quality of life of patients with cancer has caused them to have needs of getting knowledge and skills to provide services on psychosexual health care
The study results reported that the psychosexual health care training has successfully transferred knowledge and trained the participants to have ability in providing psychosexual health care services for patients with cancer and their spouse
The results of this study have found effectiveness of training and mentorship for psychosexual health care services as had been participated by 46 nurses of three hospitals providing services for patients with cancer
Summary
The contribution of nurses in improving the quality of life of patients with cancer has caused them to have needs of getting knowledge and skills to provide services on psychosexual health care. Result: The training has been implemented on 46 oncology nurses in Indonesia so that they can have knowledge, practice, belief and self-efficacy in providing psychosexual health care to patients with cancer and their spouse. The problems are not easy to be solved by the patients themselves or by the Jurnal Ners Vol 11 No 1 April 2016: 7-16 cancer survivors and their spouse They need nurses and other health care personnel to manage psychosexual problems during and following cancer treatment (Hughes 2009; P.T et al 2003). Survivors of cervical cancers and their spouse need help from health care personnel, especially nurses, to overcome the problems (Gamel et al 2000; Afiyanti & Milanti 2013; Powell et al 2008; De Groot 2005)
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