Effects of a Self-Management Program for Patients With Colorectal Cancer and a Colostomy: A Nonrandomized Clinical Trial.

Purpose: We constructed a self-management program for rectal cancer survivors with colostomies and evaluated the effect of the program on self-efficacy, self-management ability, and incidence of stomal and peristomal complications.

Design: A prospective, nonrandomized clinical trial.

Subjects And Setting: Participants were recruited from 4 proctology departments in a tertiary hospital in northeast China.