{"id":7687,"date":"2025-06-28T21:34:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T21:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/side-effects-of-treatment-in-patients-with-hepatitis-c-implications-for-nurse-specialist-practice\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T05:05:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T05:05:34","slug":"side-effects-of-treatment-in-patients-with-hepatitis-c-implications-for-nurse-specialist-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/side-effects-of-treatment-in-patients-with-hepatitis-c-implications-for-nurse-specialist-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Side effects of treatment in patients with hepatitis C &#8211; implications for nurse specialist practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: <strong>Side effects of treatment in patients with hepatitis C &#8211; implications for nurse specialist practice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Original Article Link: <a href='https:\/\/www.ajan.com.au\/index.php\/AJAN\/article\/view\/1728' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download PDF: <a href='https:\/\/www.ajan.com.au\/index.php\/AJAN\/article\/download\/1728\/460' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Click Here to Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Abstract<\/h2>\n<p>Objective: To identify patients\u2019 perceptions of the side effects of Hepatitis C treatment.<br \/>\nDesign: The research used a self\u2011reporting postal survey design to identify reported side effects, related to hepatitis C treatment, suffered by patients attending a specialist nurse clinic.<br \/>\nSetting: The setting for this study was an outpatient hepatology clinic in a large general hospital in Ireland.<br \/>\nSubjects: The questionnaire was distributed to a convenience sample of 201 patients receiving hepatitis C treatment at the hospital.<br \/>\nMain outcome measure(s): To determine what side effects are most common during hepatitis C treatment; to identify whether or not patients are satisfied with the nurse specialist\/nurse led service and to identify the unmet support needs of patients on treatment.<br \/>\nResults: Several side effects were reported, including fatigue, sleep disturbances and weight loss. Another high scoring side effect was sexual dysfunction. Patients reported a high satisfaction with nurse specialist services.<br \/>\nConclusions: Manifestations of treatment have implications for care management of this group. Routine assessment of quality of life or symptom related needs is suggested in addition to personalised support from nurse specialists. Raising patients\u2019 awareness of the potential side effects is very important in the approach to care, particularly in relation to compliance. In addition, providing information and advice to patients about how to manage their symptoms is essential.<\/p>\n<h2>Authors<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Anne Grogan<\/li>\n<li>Fiona Timmins<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Keywords<\/h2>\n<p>hepatitis C, nurse specialists, nursing, symptoms, needs<\/p>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n<p>References not available for this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: Side effects of treatment in patients with hepatitis C &#8211; implications for nurse specialist&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[4051,4964,4962,3874,4963],"class_list":["post-7687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-hepatitis-c","tag-needs","tag-nurse-specialists","tag-nursing","tag-symptoms","wpcat-124-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Side effects of treatment in patients with hepatitis C - implications for nurse specialist practice - IJSSASS Repository<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/side-effects-of-treatment-in-patients-with-hepatitis-c-implications-for-nurse-specialist-practice\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Side effects of treatment in patients with hepatitis C - implications for nurse specialist practice - IJSSASS Repository\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This article was originally published as: Side effects of treatment in patients with hepatitis C &#8211; 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