Efe Arslan Dilek, Kılıç Akça Nazan, Aslan Dicle
Halil Bayraktar Health Services Vocational College, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey.
Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Bakırçay, İzmir, Turkey.
Support Care Cancer. 2024 Dec 3;33(1):2. doi: 10.1007/s00520-024-09059-0.
This randomized controlled study was conducted to analyze the effect of hand massage on the fatigue level of the women receiving brachytherapy.
It was determined that 12 patients were included in each group (control and hand massage group), so 24 women with gynecologic cancer were included in the study. The application was performed on each hand for 5 min, a total of 10 min in hand massage group. Hand massage was applied before each brachytherapy (at the first, second, and third sessions, a total of three times) every other day for 1 week in the hand massage group. No intervention was performed to the control group during the study. The data were collected using the Patient Information Form and Brief Fatigue Inventory (BFI).
At the end of the brachytherapy, the fatigue severity score and impact of fatigue on activities of daily living scores of the group that applied hand massage were determined to be lower than the control group (p < 0.05).
It was determined that hand massage effectively controlled fatigue and the impact of fatigue on activities of daily living. Hand massage is a safe and economical method that can be performed by certified nurses.
This clinical trial is registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT06056713-09/21/2023).
本随机对照研究旨在分析手部按摩对接受近距离放射治疗的女性疲劳水平的影响。
确定每组纳入12例患者（对照组和手部按摩组），因此本研究共纳入24例妇科癌症女性患者。手部按摩组对每只手进行5分钟的按摩，共10分钟。手部按摩组在每次近距离放射治疗前（第一、第二和第三次疗程，共三次）每隔一天进行1周的手部按摩。研究期间对对照组不进行干预。使用患者信息表和简易疲劳量表（BFI）收集数据。
近距离放射治疗结束时，确定进行手部按摩组的疲劳严重程度评分以及疲劳对日常生活活动的影响评分低于对照组（p < 0.05）。
确定手部按摩能有效控制疲劳以及疲劳对日常生活活动的影响。手部按摩是一种安全且经济的方法，可由经过认证的护士进行操作。
本临床试验已在ClinicalTrials.gov注册（NCT06056713 - 2023年9月21日）。
