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KMID : 1004620110170020163
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Clinical Nursing Research
2011 Volume.17 No. 2 p.163 ~ p.175
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A Meta-analysis of Intervention Studies on Cancer-related Fatigue in Korea: 1990-2010
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Oh Pok-Ja
Jung Ji-Ah
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study was to analyze the characteristics and effect size of intervention studies applied to cancer-related fatigue in Korea.
Methods:For meta-analysis, a total of 963 studies were retrieved from search engines. And 19 studies with a total of 721 participants published from 1990 to 2010 were selected upon their satisfaction with the inclusion criteria. Two authors independently extracted data from the selected studies and assessed the methodological quality. The data was analyzed by the RevMan 5.0 program of Cochrane library.
Results:Intervention studies included 4 studies on foot-reflexo-massage (21.1%), comprehensive program (21.1%), and exercise (21.1%), respectively, 3 for hand-reflexo-massage (15.8%), and 4 for others. The effect size of the intervention studies shown higher effect size in order of exercise (d=-1.80), and foot & hand-reflexomassage (d=-0.55).
Conclusion:This study suggest that exercise can reduce the intensity of cancer-related fatigue, even though the number of intervention studies and randomized controlled trials were very few. There is limited evidence that reflexo-massage is effective in reducing cancer-related fatigue.
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KEYWORD
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Fatigue, Neoplasm, Meta-analysis, Intervention studies
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