Effects of reflexotherapy on acute postoperative pain and anxiety among patients with digestive cancer

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 109-115

  Tsay, Shiow Luan ^a   Chen, Hsiao Ling ^b   Chen, Su Chiu ^a   Lin, Hung Ru ^a   Lin, Kuan Chia ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF NURSING AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b Taipei General Veterans Hospital   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Digestive cancer; Postoperative pain; Reflexotherapy

Indexed keywords

PETHIDINE;

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANALGESIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER LOBECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MCGILL PAIN QUESTIONNAIRE; NOCICEPTION; NURSE; ONCOLOGY NURSING; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STOMACH CANCER; SURGICAL WARD; TAIWAN; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT DURATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ACUTE DISEASE; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DEPRESSION; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFLEXOTHERAPY; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 44449147827     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NCC.0000305694.74754.7b     Document Type: Article

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