Effectiveness of the Prostactive nursing intervention for symptoms self-management in men with prostate cancer under treatment

INTRODUCTION: Prostate cancer is more prevalent in men. The disease and treatment generate urinary, intestinal, sexual, hormonal and emotional symptoms that impact the functional performance of men who suffer from them. Self-management of symptoms has been considered since the World Health Organization (WHO) as a strategy to allow men to better understand their disease and generate skills to manage it from a home environment. OBJECTIVE: Determine the effectiveness of the Prostactive Intervention for the selfmanagement of symptoms and its impact on functional performance, in people with prostate cancer undergoing treatment who attend the Oncology Unit of the Nogales Clinic between 2022 and 2023. MATERIALS AND METHODS: It is a parallel experimental design determined by the random formation of two groups with a sample size of 100 participants, 50 for the control (CG) who will receive the usual care and 50 for the experimental (GI) to which the Prostactive intervention was implemented, which It consists of 4 face-to-face sessions in which you will be explained how to manage the symptoms you present due to prostate cancer and the treatment. Subsequently, telephone follow-up was carried out to determine the health status at week 8 after the face-to-face sessions. RESULTS: the Prostactive Intervention improved the levels of self-efficacy in the IG participants, functional performance (0.0001) in addition to the self-management of urinary symptoms with statistically significant differences compared to the CG. No changes were identified in obstructive symptoms (P value= 0.6), sexual symptoms, and hormonal symptoms. CONCLUSION: The Prostactive Intervention improves symptom self-management in men with CP undergoing treatment, in addition to self-efficacy and Functional Performance.