Effects of aromatherapy in the management of symptom clusters of patients with oral cancer during perioperative period
10.3760/cma.j.cn115682-20220620-02974
- VernacularTitle:芳香疗法在口腔癌患者围手术期症状群管理中的应用效果
- Author:
Jufen ZOU
1
;
Xiaoqin BI
;
Lu BAI
;
Qian LU
;
Liumei GUO
;
Ying ZHENG
Author Information
1. 四川大学华西护理学院/四川大学华西口腔医院护理部，成都 610041
- Keywords:
Mouth neoplasms;
Aromatherapy;
Perioperative period;
Syndrome
- From:
Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing
2023;29(14):1921-1927
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective:To explore the effect of aromatherapy in the management of symptom clusters of oral cancer patients at different time points during perioperative period.Methods:In the first phase of the study, 132 patients with oral cancer who were admitted to the West China Hospital of Stomatology of Sichuan University from September to December 2021 were selected as the subjects by the convenient sampling, and the symptom cluster was extracted by exploratory factor analysis. In the second phase of the study, 45 patients with oral cancer admitted to the West China Hospital of Stomatology of Sichuan University from January to March 2022 were selected as the observation group by convenient sampling. According to the matching principle of nested case-control study, 132 patients with oral cancer in the first phase of the study were matched as the control group with age, sex and other information as the matching conditions. The control group was treated with routine nursing, while the observation group was treated with aromatherapy on the basis of the control group. The severity of symptom cluster at admission, one day before operation, one day after operation, three days after operation, 7 days after operation and 30 days after operation were compared between the two groups.Results:There were 7 symptom clusters in patients with oral cancer during the perioperative period, which were rest activity, gastrointestinal activity, mental psychology, oral motor function, oral secretory function, respiratory function and neurosensory function. The mixed effect model analysis showed that there were inter-group, time and interaction effects between the two groups of patients with oral cancer in terms of the severity of gastrointestinal activity, mental psychology, and oral motor function, and the differences were statistical differences ( P<0.05). There were inter-group effects and time effects in the severity of rest activity and respiratory function, and the differences were statistically significant ( P<0.05). There were time effects in the severity of oral secretory function and neurosensory function with statistically significant differences ( P<0.05), but there were no statistically significant differences in the inter-group effect ( P>0.05) . Conclusions:Aromatherapy can improve the rest activity, mental psychology and oral motor function of patients with oral cancer. Nurses can use aromatherapy to actively intervene the symptom clusters of oral cancer patients during the perioperative period.
