Effect of herbal plaster on appetite loss of patients with gastrointestinal cancer undergoing chemotherapy
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1674-2907.2017.11.024
- VernacularTitle:中药贴敷改善胃肠道肿瘤化疗患者食欲减退的疗效观察
- Author:
Xiaoqing WANG
1
;
Peibei DUAN
;
Xiaoqin ZHANG
;
Lihong WU
Author Information
1. 南京中医药大学附属医院消化肿瘤外科
- Keywords:
Cancer chemotherapy;
Appetite loss;
Acupuncture points;
Herbal plaster
- From:
Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing
2017;23(11):1549-1551
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To investigate the intervention effect of herbal plaster on appetite loss of patients with gastrointestinal cancer undergoing chemotherapy.Methods Sixty-six patients treated in Department of Oncology, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine from August 2015 to August 2016 were selected by convenient sampling, and were divided randomly into two groups. Patients in the control group were given conventional nursing, while patients in the observation group were given extra application of herbal plaster. The effect of intervention was evaluated by change of the patients' appetite and BMI.Results After completion of the treatment, appetite scores of patients in the observation group were (4.55±1.32) points, with that in the control group (2.22±1.43) (t=5.48,P<0.05); difference of BMI between the two groups showed no statistic significance (t=0.89,P>0.05).Conclusions Herbal plaster, as a characteristic technique in external treatment of traditional medicine, can help the patients regain their appetite to a certain extent and thus improve clinical outcomes. Still, clinical quantity-effect researches need to be strengthened in the future, so as to make the results more stringent, to better popularize and promote traditional Chinese nursing technology, and to provide new ideas and complementary therapy for clinical application of appetite loss caused by chemotherapy.
