Osmanoglu Yurdakul Zeynep, Esenay Figen Işık
Dr. Abdurrahman Yurtaslan Oncology Education and Research Hospital, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Clinic, Ankara, Turkey.
Department of Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey.
J Spec Pediatr Nurs. 2019 Jul;24(3):e12260. doi: 10.1111/jspn.12260. Epub 2019 Jul 8.
We aimed to determine the complementary and integrative health (CIH) methods used by parents to treat oral mucositis in their children who have cancer.
In this multicenter, cross-sectional study, data for the study were collected via the demographic form and CIH form for oral mucositis. The data collection tools were filled out by the researchers during the face-to-face interviews. The parents (N = 302) of children with cancer who had undergone at least one round of chemotherapy were included in this study.
According to the parents' statements, oral mucositis developed in 91.1% of the children with cancer, and CIH was used in 50.9% of them to treat its side effects. Parents stated that to deal with the oral mucositis, they mainly used black mulberry (41.5%), carbonate (15.2%), and honey (11.6%). Some of the parents (51.8%) used CIH for their children without informing their healthcare providers.
The majority of healthcare providers were unaware of the parents' use of CIH for their children's oral mucositis treatment. Parents' opinions of these methods, of which the side effects and potential interactions with chemotherapeutic agents are not precisely known, and their use by parents for their children's oral mucositis should be evaluated by healthcare providers.
我们旨在确定家长用于治疗患癌子女口腔黏膜炎的补充与整合健康（CIH）方法。
在这项多中心横断面研究中，通过人口统计学表格和口腔黏膜炎CIH表格收集研究数据。数据收集工具由研究人员在面对面访谈期间填写。本研究纳入了至少接受过一轮化疗的患癌儿童的家长（N = 302）。
根据家长的陈述，91.1%的患癌儿童出现了口腔黏膜炎，其中50.9%的家长使用CIH来治疗其副作用。家长表示，为应对口腔黏膜炎，他们主要使用黑桑葚（41.5%）、碳酸盐（15.2%）和蜂蜜（11.6%）。一些家长（51.8%）在未告知医疗服务提供者的情况下就为孩子使用了CIH。
大多数医疗服务提供者并不知晓家长为孩子的口腔黏膜炎治疗使用CIH的情况。医疗服务提供者应对家长对这些方法的看法进行评估，因为这些方法的副作用以及与化疗药物的潜在相互作用尚不清楚，而家长却将其用于孩子的口腔黏膜炎治疗。
