Hand Massage for Cancer Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy as Outpatients: A Pilot Study

Cutshall, Susanne M.; Mahapatra, Saswati; Hynes, Rebecca; Rooy, Kimberly M. Van; Looker, Sherry; Ghosh, Aditya; Schleck, Cathy D.; Bauer, Brent A.; Wahner‐Roedler, Dietlind L.

doi:10.1016/j.explore.2017.06.007

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“…This in turn might be complicated, and to date, no comparison between different centers has been undertaken. However, it is worth noting that studies focusing on the effectiveness of experimental interventions showed promising results in terms of informational needs [47,48], reduced stress, increased hope, and overcoming loneliness [47][48][49][50] in patients with cancer. For example, Schofield [51] compared an intervention, in which formal and informal cares were combined, to care as usual in women with gynecological cancers receiving curative radiotherapy.…”

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Evaluation of centers for information and support combining formal and informal care for patients with cancer: a systematic review of the literature

Driessen

Kranenburg

Rijt

et al. 2022

Support Care Cancer

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Purpose Clear information and supportive care are necessary for patients with cancer to effectively manage their condition. Traditionally, healthcare professionals offer information and support via the so-called formal care route. In addition, research has found favorable effects of informal care provided by volunteer programs and informal “walk-in support centers.” Less research has been done on initiatives that combine formal and complementary informal supportive care for patients with cancer. This systematic literature study aimed to discover (1) which types of initiatives are described in the literature, (2) what type of care they offer, and (3). how they are evaluated in terms of outcome measures. Methods We performed a systematic literature search of MEDLINE, Embase, PsycINFO, and CINAHL. Studies were included if the collaboration between one type of formal care together with one type of informal care was explicitly mentioned in the article. The search was not restricted to a specific cancer type. Results A total of 4869 records were retrieved and 18 studies were included. In most studies, the care provided consisted of emotional support for, and/or providing information to, patients and their families. Initiatives were evaluated with interviews and questionnaires. Patients with cancer reported that they were satisfied with the care offered, including information, social and emotional support, help with activities of daily living, and family-related issues. Volunteers reported that visits they made were experienced positive and rewarding and the volunteers were confident about their contribution to general healthcare. Some negative experiences were reported by volunteers, e.g., interference of their own cancer diagnosis with volunteer work. The importance of proper training was stressed. Conclusions Initiatives combining formal and informal supportive care hold the potential of added value in terms of providing emotional support for, and providing information to, patients with cancer. Support and specific training for volunteers can be viewed as success factors in the involvement of volunteers in formal care practices.

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Evaluation of centers for information and support combining formal and informal care for patients with cancer: a systematic review of the literature

Driessen

Kranenburg

Rijt

et al. 2022

Support Care Cancer

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“…One of the nursing care measures is complementary and alternative modalities such as massage. Massage facilitates the process of nurse-patient communication, gives patients senses of attention and safety, alleviates their anxiety and pain, improves their comfort, and promotes their participation in care delivery (12,15,16). Massage alleviates pain through blocking pain transmission pathways and promoting endorphin production.…”

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The Effects of Comfort-Based Interventions (Back Massage and Patient and Family Education) on the Level of Comfort Among Hemodialysis Patients

2017

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Background: Providing patients with comfort is the basis of nursing care and a favorable outcome of nursing care measures. Comfort is of special importance to hemodialysis patients because they spend a large part of their lives in hemodialysis units and are constantly dealing with different physical and mental health problems. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of comfort-based interventions (back massage along with patient and family education) on the level of comfort among hemodialysis patients. Methods: As a randomized controlled trial, this study was undertaken in 2016 in the hemodialysis unit of Shahid Chamran hospital, Ferdows, Iran. A convenience sample of forty hemodialysis patients was recruited. Patients were alternately allocated to control or intervention groups based on their hemodialysis days. The hospice comfort questionnaire was completed for all participants at the beginning and at the end of the study. This questionnaire showed that the comfort needs of patients were related to muscle cramps, headache, back pain, nausea, lack of knowledge about arteriovenous fistula care, dietary and treatment regimens, itching, rest and sleep disorders, and impaired comfort. Patients in the intervention group received massage as well as patient and family education in six consecutive hemodialysis sessions, while their counterparts in the control group solely received the routine care services of the study setting. The SPSS software (v. 18.0) was used for data analysis through running the paired-and the independent-sample t tests. The significance level was set at less than 0.05. Results: The mean scores of comfort and its environmental and psychospiritual dimensions significantly increased in the intervention group (P < 0.001). Significant increases were also observed in the mean scores of comfort and its psychospiritual dimension in the control group (P < 0.05). Before the intervention, there were no significant differences between the groups respecting the mean values of comfort and its dimensions (P > 0.05). However, after the intervention, there were significant between-group differences in the mean scores of comfort and its environmental dimension as well as in the pretest-posttest mean difference for the environmental dimension of comfort.

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“…The types of nursing support expected to promote comfort and relieve local tension included relaxation therapy using virtual reality (VR) in two studies [55,56] (one RCT), massage therapy in eight studies [57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65] (four RCTs), aromatherapy massage in one RCT [60], music therapy in six studies [44,[66][67][68][69][70] (five RCTs), reflexology in five RCTs [43,65,[71][72][73], poetry appreciation in one RCT [68], and foot bathing in one RCT [74].…”

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Nursing Support for Pain in Patients With Cancer: A Scoping Review

Morikawa,

Kajiwara,

Kobayashi

et al. 2023

Cureus

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Pain is subjective, warranting tailored responses in pharmacotherapy and nursing support. Despite this, the evidence for suitable nursing support for pain is not well established in terminally ill patients such as those with cancer; therefore, it is necessary to provide support in consideration of changes in physical symptoms and quality of life. However, interventional studies for such patients are often difficult. There have been no comprehensive studies to date on non-pharmacological support that can be implemented by nurses. Therefore, with the aim of examining nursing support applicable at the end of life, this scoping review comprehensively mapped nursing support for pain in cancer patients at all stages of the disease. This study complies with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) statement and the Arksey and O'Malley framework. All available published articles from the time of database establishment to January 31, 2022, were systematically searched for in PubMed, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), CENTRAL, and the Ichushi Web database of the Japanese Society of Medical Abstracts. Overall, 10,385 articles were screened, and 72 were finally included. Both randomized controlled trials (RCTs) (n = 62) and non-RCTs (n = 10) were included. Twenty-two types of nursing support were identified. Eighteen of them showed positive results; five of them were provided only to terminally ill patients, three of which were effective, namely, comfort care, foot bath, and combined therapy. It is important to examine the applicability of types of nursing support in clinical practice in the future.

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Hand Massage for Cancer Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy as Outpatients: A Pilot Study

Cited by 14 publications

References 40 publications

Evaluation of centers for information and support combining formal and informal care for patients with cancer: a systematic review of the literature

Evaluation of centers for information and support combining formal and informal care for patients with cancer: a systematic review of the literature

The Effects of Comfort-Based Interventions (Back Massage and Patient and Family Education) on the Level of Comfort Among Hemodialysis Patients

Nursing Support for Pain in Patients With Cancer: A Scoping Review

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