EFFECTIVENESS OF PROGRAMMED DEEP BREATHING EXERCISES ON REDUCING THE LEVEL OF FATIGUE DURING EXTERNAL RADIATION THERAPY
Journal Title: Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 5, Issue 38
Abstract
CONTEXT Cancer related fatigue is the most common symptom described by cancer patients receiving radiation therapy. AIM To assess the effectiveness of programmed deep breathing exercises on reducing the level of fatigue during external radiation therapy in cancer patients in some selected hospitals of Guwahati, Assam. SETTINGS AND DESIGN Experimental, pretest- post-test control group designed to select 60 cancer patients in Dr. B. Barooah Cancer Institute and North East Cancer Hospital and Research Institute, Guwahati. MATERIALS AND METHODS Simple random sampling to select 30 patients in experimental and 30 in control group, the experimental group was given deep breathing exercises for 5 days and level of fatigue was assessed by Cancer Fatigue Scale for both the groups. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS USED SPSS Version 15. Frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, paired ‘t’ test, Chi-square test. RESULTS Results suggested that irrespective of age, sex, marital status, education, occupation, religion, diagnosis, stage of cancer, duration of radiation therapy, all cancer patients developed fatigue and significant difference was found between the control group and the experimental group after the implementation of deep breathing exercises in all the three subscales of radiation induced fatigue, physical (p=0.03), affective (p=0.01) and cognitive (p=0.02). Age (p=0.01), stage of cancer (p=0.03) and duration of radiation therapy (p=0.02) were significantly associated with the level of fatigue. CONCLUSION Deep breathing exercises are an effective intervention in reducing fatigue among cancer patients and can be effectively utilized by oncology nurses to improve quality of life.
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Rajita , Hiranya Saharia
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