Nurse, Şehitkamil State Hospital, Anesthesia Unit, Gaziantep, Turkey.
İnonu University Faculty of Nursing, Department of Internal Medicine Nursing, Malatya, Turkey.
Complement Ther Clin Pract. 2020 Aug;40:101213. doi: 10.1016/j.ctcp.2020.101213. Epub 2020 Jun 14.
The aim of this study is to determine the effect of breathing exercise on nausea, vomiting, and functional status in breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.
This randomized controlled trial was conducted with a total of 60 breast cancer patients in the ambulatory chemotherapy unit of a university hospital. The data were collected using Patient Information Form, Functional Living Index-Cancer (FLI-C), Visual Analog Scale, and Patient Diary. The patients were followed up for the first seven days. While the control group received routine nursing care until the posttest, the intervention group received breathing exercise for six days. On the seventh day, FLI-C was repeated for all the patients.
It was determined that the patients in the intervention group had less number of nausea, vomiting, and retching episodes after the breathing exercise (p < 0.05) and experienced lower severity of nausea (p < 0.05) compared to patients in the control group.
Consequently, it was determined that the breathing exercise reduced chemotherapy-induced nausea, vomiting and retching in breast cancer patients and affected positively functional status of patients.
本研究旨在确定呼吸锻炼对接受化疗的乳腺癌患者恶心、呕吐和功能状态的影响。
这项随机对照试验在一所大学医院的门诊化疗病房共纳入 60 例乳腺癌患者。使用患者信息表、癌症功能生活指数（FLI-C）、视觉模拟量表和患者日记收集数据。对患者进行为期七天的随访。对照组在测试后接受常规护理，而干预组则接受六天的呼吸锻炼。第七天，对所有患者重复进行 FLI-C。
与对照组相比，干预组患者在呼吸锻炼后恶心、呕吐和干呕的发作次数较少（p<0.05），恶心程度较轻（p<0.05）。
因此，呼吸锻炼可减少乳腺癌患者化疗引起的恶心、呕吐和干呕，并对患者的功能状态产生积极影响。
