240
Participants
Start Date
November 15, 2011
Primary Completion Date
September 15, 2016
Study Completion Date
December 15, 2016
Stoma prehabilitation
A stoma pouch was attached to the marked stoma site on the patient's abdominal surface after stoma education (only in group C). EST nurse filled 250 ml water into the pouch. Patients lived with these pouches until surgery. They experienced walking, sitting, sleeping, changing clothes with a pouch. They learned how to empty it. When a leak occurred, the pouch was changed by the nurse
preoperative stoma education
A consultation period for stoma education by an EST nurse was approximately 45 minutes. Patients were shown pictures of a stoma. The stoma-care equipments and a pouch were also shown to the patients and they were informed about these equipments. They were also provided information about daily living with a stoma.
postoperative stoma education
A consultation period for stoma education by an EST nurse was approximately 45 minutes. Patients were shown pictures of a stoma. The stoma-care equipments and a pouch were also shown to the patients and they were informed about these equipments. They were also provided information about daily living with a stoma.
Postoperative stoma care
Usual stoma care given by enterostomal therapy nurse after a surgery with fecal diversion
Cihangir Akyol
OTHER