| Titel: | Outcomes of therapeutic massage for hospitalized cancer patients. | | Kategori: | Massage, Onkologi | | Författare: | Smith MC, Kemp J, Hemphill L, Vojir CP. | | Källa: | J Nurs Scholarsh | | År: | 2002 | | Sidor: | 257-62 | | Sammanfattning: | | PURPOSE: To examine the effects of therapeutic massage on perception of pain,subjective sleep quality, symptom distress, and anxiety in patients hospitalizedfor treatment of cancer. ORGANIZING CONSTRUCT: Rogers' Science of Unitary HumanBeings and Watson's theory of human caring. METHODS: Quasiexperimental. Thesample consisted of 41 patients admitted to the oncology unit at a large urbanmedical center in the United States for chemotherapy or radiation therapy.Twenty participants received therapeutic massage and 21 received the controltherapy, nurse interaction. The outcome variables were measured on admission andat the end of 1 week via the following instruments: a Numerical Rating Scale forpain intensity and Likert-type scale for distress from pain; The VerranSnyder-Halpern Sleep Scale, McCorkle and Young's Symptom Distress Scale, and theSpeilberger State Anxiety Inventory. ANOVA and t tests were used to analyzebetween and within group differences in mean scores and main effects on outcomevariables. FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS: Mean scores for pain, sleep quality,symptom distress, and anxiety improved from baseline for the subjects whoreceived therapeutic massage; only anxiety improved from baseline forparticipants in the comparison group. Statistically significant interactionswere found for pain, symptom distress, and sleep. Sleep improved only slightlyfor the participants receiving massage, but it deteriorated significantly forthose in the control group. The findings support the potential for massage as anursing therapeutic for cancer patients receiving chemotherapy or radiationtherapy. |
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