To browse Academia. The aim of the present study was to examine the effect of massage on nausea, anxiety, and depression in patients with breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy. This work was a single-center, prospective, randomized, controlled trial. This study was conducted in an oncology clinic, in a hospital in southwestern Sweden. The patients were randomly assigned to a massage therapy group 20 minutes of massage on five occasions or a control group five minute visits.
All patients recorded nausea and anxiety on the Visual Analogue Scale before and after each intervention. They also completed the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale. Differences in anxiety and depression between the two treatment regimes could not be statistically demonstrated. This study complements previous studies on the effect of massage and supports the conclusion that massage reduces nausea in these patients.
A randomized controlled trial was conducted to investigate the efficacy of classical massage treatment in reducing breast cancer-related symptoms and in improving mood disturbances. Women diagnosed with primary breast cancer were randomized into an intervention group and a control group. For a period of 5 weeks, the intervention group received biweekly min classical massages in the back and head-neck areas.
The control group received no additional treatment to their routine healthcare. Eighty-six eligible women mean age: 59 years were enrolled in the study. A significantly higher reduction of physical discomfort was found in the intervention group compared with the control group at T2 p 5 0. A decrease in fatigue was also observed. Women in the intervention group reported significantly lower mood disturbances at T2 po0. The effect of treatment on mood disturbances was significantly higher if a patient was treated continuously by the same masseur.
Classical massage seems to be an effective adjuvant treatment for reducing physical discomfort and fatigue, and improving mood disturbances in women with early stage breast cancer. This quasi-experimental and cross-sectional study was carried out to determine the efficacy of back massage, a nursing intervention, on the process of acute fatigue developing due to chemotherapy and on the anxiety level emerging in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy during this process.
