Background: Nurses play an essential role in transferring knowledge to patients. However, several factors cause nurses to adopt a negative attitude toward providing oncofertility care.
Objective: This study examined the effects of an oncofertility education program on decisional conflict in nurses caring for breast cancer patients and patients with breast cancer. Other predictors of decisional conflict were also examined.
Design: Randomized, controlled experimental research. Settings and Participants: Patients (61) with breast cancer and nurses (79) were recruited from a hospital in Taipei, Taiwan.
Methods: The nursing participants were randomly assigned to receive oncofertility education (experimental group) or usual education (control group). Data from female patients in the control and experimental groups were collected before and after the nurses' educational training, respectively. The oncofertility education consisted of one face-to-face educational session and reading one educational booklet based on the Naturalistic Decision-Making (NDM) Model. The decisional conflict was measured using the Chinese version of the decisional conflict scale.
