Modified Pro-Self Pain Control to Increase Activity in Patients with Colorectal Cancer

Abstract

Background: Barriers to performing activities of daily living are common complaints of patients with cancer. One of the factors causing these barriers is pain. A modified pro-self pain control is a method used to enhance the patients' ability to cope with pain to increase their activity. Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the modified pro-self pain control to increase activity in patients with colorectal cancer undergoing chemotherapy. Methods: The present study employed an experimental design. Patients with colorectal cancer undergoing chemotherapy were randomly assigned to the intervention group (n=24) and the control group (n=24). The patients in the control group were given a standard hospital intervention, while the patients in the intervention group were given the modified pro-self pain control for nine days. The data were collected using the instrument of KATZ index and analyzed using the independent t-test. Results: The result of this study showed that there was a higher increase of activity among the patients in the intervention group than in the control group. Independent ttest showed that there was a significant difference between the intervention group and the control group (p=0.00). Conclusion:The modified pro-self pain control was found more effective to increase the activity in patients with colorectal cancer undergoing chemotherapy than that of the standard hospital intervention.

The Effect of Spiritual Emotional Freedom Technique (SEFT) on Pain Intensity of Advanced Breast Cancer Patients in X Hospital Tangerang

“…The results of this study are in line with the results of research conducted by Munawaroh et al (2017) to analyze the relationship between pain and activity and to prove that pro-self-pain control modification with the SEFT can reduce pain and increase the activity of colorectal cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy conducted on 48 respondents, divided into two groups, namely the control group and the intervention group, and showed that there was a relationship between pain and activity so that the modification of pro-self-pain control using the SEFT could reduce pain and increase the activity of patients with colorectal cancer undergoing chemotherapy. When viewed from the classification of pain, pain in colorectal cancer and breast cancer patients are both severe pains in line with the development of the cancer stage (Huether et al, 2017).…”

“…Social impacts include decreased social relationships and impaired appearance and impacts on spirituality such as increased feelings of suffering, impaired meaning/purpose of life, and disturbances in religious beliefs. This negative impact affects the ability of breast cancer patients to overcome their disease through treatment and maintain their quality of life (Huether et al, 2017;Munawaroh et al, 2017;Ghanem et al, 2019;Ligt et al, 2019).…”