1Assistant Professor, Community Health Nursing, Benha University, Egypt
2Lecturer of Pediatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Benha University, Egypt
Online published on 19 February, 2018.
There has been a dramatic increase in the number of childhood cancer survivors living to an old age due to improved cancer treatments so promote a healthy lifestyle for them very important.
Evaluate the effect of promoting healthy lifestyle program to survivor adolescents with leukemia and their caregivers.
A quasi-experimental research design.
Pediatric Outpatient Clinic and waiting room affiliated with Specialized Pediatric Hospital at Benha City.
A purposive sample of thirty eight survivors’ adolescents with leukemia and their caregivers.
I-Structured interviewing questionnaire. II- The health-promoting lifestyle profile and III- Caregiver burden scale.
Less than two-third of the adolescent were male live in the urban area; more than two third of them was a survivor from ALL. There were improving adolescent and their caregiver knowledge post-intervention. There was statistically significant between caregiver's burden and their promoting the healthy lifestyle. Also, reflect that mild burden of caregivers associated with achieving promoting healthy lifestyle for their adolescent.
The promoting healthy lifestyle program was effective to improve healthy promoting lifestyle for survivor adolescent with leukemia and their caregivers.
Continue follow-up guidelines for particular groups of survivors’ adolescents and their caregivers to discover any changes in health status and maintain healthy behavior lifestyle.
Caregivers, Survivor adolescent with leukemia, Health-Promoting Lifestyle
