Symptom Management, Education and Telephone Follow-up, Quality of Life,

This study was planned as an experimental design study with pretest-posttest control group in order to determine the effects of education and telephone follow-up given to patients receiving androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for prostate cancer on quality of life and symptom management.The main question[s] it aims to answer are:Is the quality of life higher in patients receiving androgen deprivation therapy who are trained and followed up over the phone compared to patients who are only given an education booklet?Is symptom management higher in patients receiving androgen deprivation therapy who received training and followed-up over the phone compared to patients who were only given an education booklet?

Inclusion Criteria:Volunteer to participate in the research,Literate and open to communication,Knowing the diagnosis,Those aged 45 and over,Receiving short-term or long-term ADT treatment,The patient or his/her relatives have telephone access,Exclusion Criteria:Having a mental or psychiatric illness that prevents communication,Those with vision-hearing problems