Guided imagery and progressive muscle relaxation as a cluster of symptoms management intervention in patients receiving chemotherapy: A randomized control trial

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Charalambous, Andreas ^a,b   Giannakopoulou, Margarita ^c   Bozas, Evaggelos ^c   Marcou, Yiola ^d   Kitsios, Petros ^d   Paikousis, Lefkios ^e  

^a CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d Bank of Cyprus Group Oncology Centre   (Cyprus)

^e Improvast Analytical Services Company   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GLEASON SCORE; GUIDED IMAGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PATIENT CARE; PROGRESSIVE MUSCLE RELAXATION; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETCHING; SELF REPORT; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SYMPTOM MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT DURATION; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; DRUG-RELATED SIDE EFFECTS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS; NAUSEA; NEOPLASMS; PROCEDURES; RELAXATION TRAINING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ANXIETY; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; DRUG-RELATED SIDE EFFECTS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA; NEOPLASMS; PAIN; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELAXATION THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING;

EID: 84976551443     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156911     Document Type: Article

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