Effectiveness of Health Promotion Package based on Flourishing on Perceived Stress and Self Care of Kidney Cancer Patients

Human flourishing can be a new goal of health care that nurses can apply to people with cancer. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of the health promotion package based on flourishing on perceived stress and self-care of kidney cancer patients.

The research method was a semi-experimental type with a pre-test, post-test and follow-up plan with a control group. The statistical population was all people with kidney cancer who were members of the Tehran Kidney Cancer Society in 2001-2001, and 30 people were selected in a targeted way and randomly assigned to the experimental group and the control group. The health promotion package based on prosperity was implemented on the experimental group. Perceived stress (Cohen, 1983) and self-care (Han et al., 2014) questionnaires were used to collect information. The data were checked with SPSS 22 software and using variance analysis or repeated measurement.

The results indicate that between the average scores of positive stresses (ᶯ2=0.56), negative stress (ᶯ2=0.28), diet (ᶯ2=0.18), drug regimen (ᶯ2=0.22) A significant difference was observed between the experimental and control groups. However, no significant difference was observed between the average food label and disease management between the experimental group and the control group. The health promotion package based on flourishing has reduced the perceived stress in kidney cancer patients in a stable manner and has increased the diet and drug regimen in a stable manner.

The health promotion package based on flourishing on perceived stress and self-care behaviors such as diet and medication compliance are beneficial for kidney cancer patients.