Can an educational intervention improve compliance with vaginal dilator use in patients treated with radiation for a gynecological malignancy?

International Journal of Gynecological Cancer

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 897-904

  Brand, Alison H ^a,b   Do, Viet ^a,b   Stenlake, Annie ^a  

^a WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Compliance; Educational intervention; Vaginal dilators; Vaginal stenosis

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; DEMOGRAPHY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVARY CANCER; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PELVIC EXAMINATION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION EQUIPMENT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STENOSIS; STRUCTURED EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS CANCER; VAGINA CANCER; VAGINA PAIN; VAGINA STENOSIS; VAGINAL DILATOR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BRACHYTHERAPY; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; DILATATION; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINA;

EID: 84863712445     PISSN: 1048891X     EISSN: 15251438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IGC.0b013e31824d7243     Document Type: Article

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