Effect of Progressive Muscle Relaxation on the Prevention of Chemotherapy Induced Nausea and Vomiting Among Patient Receiving Chemotherapy Admitted in Oncology Ward of Selected Hospital

Abstract

Introductions: Cancer is a generic term for a large group of diseases that can affect any part of the body. Treatment modalities for the cancer are changing according to the severity of the disease. In the year of 1970 chemotherapy was established as the effective treatment modality for the cancer. There are many side effects are also associated with the chemotherapy treatment, nausea and vomiting are the commonest one. There are different modalities are available for managing side effects of chemotherapy like taking short naps, short exercise sessions to deal with fatigue, diversion therapies and Progressive muscle relaxation. According to review, it is reported that the relaxation training methods, including progressive muscle relaxation is found to be best if a person trained before cancer treatment starts. Materials and Methods: Quasi-experimental two group post-test interventional design selected for the study with a sample of size of 30 of both groups. Simple random sampling used; patient selected for both groups with lottery method. Common toxicity criteria (NCI 2012) were used to assess chemotherapy induced nausea and vomiting after receiving progressive muscle relaxation as an intervention in patient receiving chemotherapy. Hospital existing interventions were given to the control group. Baseline data was collected from patient record. Unpaired ‘t’ test was used to compare the effectiveness between the groups and chi square test was used for association. Result: In control group the mean score of post-test was (1.1) and in experimental group score of post-test was (0.46). Unpaired ‘t’ test value for this present study was 3.52 with 58 degree of freedom. Tabulated t value is 2.0086 with 58 degree of freedom. Calculated value is more than tabulated value, So the null hypothesis was rejected at 0.05 level of significant and alternative hypothesis was accepted at 0.05 level of significant. Conclusion: Unpaired ‘t’ test value 2.51 with 18 degree of freedom. Tabulated t value is 2.1009 with 18 degree of freedom. So, the study finding revealed that the effect of progressive muscle relaxation for the patient undergoing chemotherapy is more effective than hospital existing practice.