THE EFFECT OF SELF- CARE PROGRAM ON THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR PATIENTS WITH SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOUS
- Teacher In Technical Institute of Nursingin Health Insurance Hospital, Shubra Al Kamia.
- Assist Professor of Adult Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Capital University.
- Professor of Adult Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Capital University.
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Systemic lupus erythematous is a source of disability that can create a burden of poor life. The quality of life of SLE patients is always worse than that of healthy people. Aim of this study was toevaluate the effect of self-care program on the quality of life for patients with systemic lupus erythematous.
Design: A quasi- experimental research design was utilized Setting:in the department of Rheumatology and clinical out patients at Banha university hospital. Sample: Apurposive sample of (65) all adult male and female patients with diagnosis of SLE. Tools of data collection: Data were collected by using three tools: Tool I:Patients Structured Interview
Questionnaire,Tool II:Lupus quality of life Questionnaire. Tool III: Self-care program for the patients with systemic lupus erythematous.
Results: the majority of the study have satisfactory knowledge post-educational and follow-up program and the majority of them have high quality of life post-educational program and in the follow-up. Also the study releaved that there was a highly statistically positive correlation between the studied patients total knowledge regarding systemic lupus erythematous and total score of lupus quality of life pre-, post-educational program and follow-up.
[Yasmine Ezat EL-Sayed, Furat Hussein Mahmoud and Zeinab Hussien Ali (2025); THE EFFECT OF SELF- CARE PROGRAM ON THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR PATIENTS WITH SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOUS Int. J. of Adv. Res. (Dec). 1281-1291] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com
