Arakawa S
School of Nursing, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.
Cancer Nurs. 1995 Feb;18(1):60-6.
Nausea and vomiting have been recognized as the most distressing side effects of chemotherapy, and are experienced by 66-91% of chemotherapy patients in Japan. Relaxation measures have been used for patients with various other diagnoses, but this technique has never been applied to patients receiving cancer chemotherapy. This pilot study examined the effects of progressive muscle relaxation (PMR) to reduce nausea, vomiting, and anxiety associated with chemotherapy in Japanese patients. Data for eight subjects who were randomly assigned to a treatment group or a control group were analyzed. Both treatment and control groups showed decrease in nausea and vomiting; therefore, the effect of PMR was not verified. However, there was an average decrease of 2.5 points in state-anxiety scores in the treatment group. In addition, some positive effects of PMR were shown by the subjects in the treatment group.
恶心和呕吐被认为是化疗最令人痛苦的副作用，在日本，66%至91%的化疗患者会出现这些症状。放松措施已用于患有各种其他病症的患者，但该技术从未应用于接受癌症化疗的患者。这项初步研究考察了渐进性肌肉放松（PMR）对减轻日本化疗患者的恶心、呕吐及化疗相关焦虑的效果。对随机分配到治疗组或对照组的8名受试者的数据进行了分析。治疗组和对照组的恶心和呕吐症状均有所减轻；因此，PMR的效果未得到验证。然而，治疗组的状态焦虑评分平均下降了2.5分。此外，治疗组的受试者显示出PMR的一些积极效果。
