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A study to assess the effectiveness of Indian ginger tea in management of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting among cancer patients in a selected cancer hospital at Guntur, Andhra Pradesh”.
Chemotherapy is considered an effective treatment and therapeutic option for certain cancers. Nausea and vomiting remain the most common adverse effects of chemotherapy in spite of the administration of antiemetics. Various alternative, adjuvant and complementary therapies are widely used to prevent the side effects of chemotherapy. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of Indian ginger tea in the management of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting among cancer patients. Materials and methods: A true experimental pre-test post-test control group design was adopted in this study. Sixty women were selected through a simple random sampling technique (30 experimental and 30 control groups of cancer patients). The data were collected before and after ingestion of Indian ginger tea using the Structured MASCC (Multinational Association for Supportive Care in Cancer) antiemesis tool (mat) for measuring chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting. Results: The major findings of the study revealed that the mean pre-test score of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting was 45.17 with an SD of 16.09 and it decreased to 27.33 with an SD of 13.83 in the post-test. It can be interpreted that a decrease in the post-test scores to post-test-test chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting scores. Whereas in the control group, the mean pre-test was 38.83 with SD of 16.64 and it was slightly decreased to 36.93 with SD of 14.94 in the post-test. The paired ‘t-test was computed to find the effectiveness of Indian ginger tea in the management of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting among cancer patients. The calculated value of ‘t’ was 12.57 which was greater than the tabulated value of ‘t’ 3.66 with 29 degrees of freedom was found to be highly significant at 0.001 level of significance. The demographic variables such as age, gender, marital status, education, family history of cancer, and habits were found to be significant at 0.05 level of significance. The clinical variables such as diagnosis, signs and symptoms, duration of treatment, type of cancer, and source of information were found to have a significant association with chemotherapy-induced vomiting at 0.05 level of significance. Conclusion: Indian Ginger tea was effective in relieving chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting among cancer patients.
Published by: Sampa Mandal, Sahaya John, Punitha Singh, Jyothi Vidya
Author: Sampa Mandal
Paper ID: V9I1-1180
Paper Status: published
Published: February 20, 2023
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