Impact of Family-Centered Empowerment on Caregivers of Children with Cancer: a Quasi-Experimental Study Protocol

Three sessions of approximately 15-30 min each are conducted within 3 d of the child's admission to the hospital, from the fourth day to the day before discharge, and on the day before discharge. The researcher or charge nurse assesses the caregivers' mastery every week using uniform evaluation criteria and adjusts the topic or number of interventions within each phase based on mastery, with the final intervention content and timeline remaining unchanged.Health education includes: providing family caregivers of children with malignant tumors with knowledge of the disease, guidance on dietary care, instruction on how to recognize symptoms, guidance on medication, post-implantation precautions at the port of infusion, knowledge of blood markers, monitoring of the disease, and emergency treatment.

"Routine nursing care and current health education content will be provided, including the following: introduction to the department's environment, rules, and regulations; admission counselling; examination guidance; distribution of health education brochures; ongoing education on daily care, medication management, and health practices during hospitalisation; guidance on daily care, medication management, and health education by the nurse in charge; proactive support and communication by medical staff, including resolving questions and sharing caregiver experience; and discharge instructions with follow-up schedules for chemotherapy.~Participants in the control group are offered an FCEM-based intervention regimen on their second admission (at the beginning of the second course of treatment), which is appropriately adapted to the control group's second chemotherapy treatment."