|
KMID : 0367020180300030227
|
|
Journal of Korean Academic of Adult Nursing
2018 Volume.30 No. 3 p.227 ~ p.234
|
|
|
Effect of Auricular Acupressure on Nausea, Vomiting, and Retching in Patients with Colorectal Cancer Receiving Chemotherapy
|
|
Shin Na-Yeon
Park Jum-Mi
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of auricular acupressure on nausea, vomiting, and retching in patients with colorectal cancer receiving chemotherapy.
Methods: A non-equivalent control group with a pretest-posttest design was used. The participants were assigned into either the control or the experimental group. The patients were recruited from November 2013 to March 2014 from a tertiary hospital in Seongnam city, South Korea. A total of 50 patients completed the study. The Korean version of the Index of Nausea, Vomiting, and Retching (INVR) was used.
Results: The experimental group showed significantly lower nausea (p=.011) and retching (p=.014) than did the control group after receiving auricular acupressure. There were significant interaction effects between time and group on auricular acupressure on nausea (F=3.11, p=.009) and retching (F=3.01, p=.010). There were significant interaction effects between time and group on auricular acupressure on total score of INVR (F=8.23, p<.001).
Conclusion: Auricular acupressure therapy is effective in relieving nausea and retching after chemotherapy. Auricular acupressure intervention could be used to improve the quality of life for patients with colorectal cancer.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
Acupressure, Colorectal neoplasm, Nausea, Vomiting
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
 
|
|