Effect of Guided Imagery on Chemotherapy-related Nausea and Vomiting

Baskent University

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Chemotherapy-induced Nausea and Vomiting; Pediatric Cancer

Treatments: Other: guided imagery

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06120764

KA23/180

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this randomized controlled study is to assess the effect of guided imagery on chemotherapy-related nausea and vomiting in pediatric oncology patients.

Participants will receive either guided imagery+routine care or routine care. The researchers will compare nausea and vomiting and vital signs between groups.

Full description

Despite significant advances in anti-emetic treatment, chemotherapy induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) is considered a major side-effect that significantly reduces the quality of life of children diagnosed with cancer. Guided imagery is one of the methods of distraction that allows the individual to go to an environment or scene that will make the individual comfortable, peaceful, happy, and focused. In this study, the participants will be randomized in a single blind manner (participant) to either intervention or control groups.

Enrollment: 40 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 7 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 7 to 18 years old,
• who will receive intravenous chemotherapy,
• no cognitive or neurological disease that would prevent communication,
• receiving a chemotherapy protocol with a high or moderate emetogenic effect according to the MASCC/ESMO Antiemetic Guideline Classification,
• no verbal, visual and auditory communication disabilities (ability to speak Turkish, no mental deficiency),
• children whose parents and themselves volunteered to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

• Children receiving radiotherapy,
• taking ginger powder or vitamins to reduce nausea,
• children who did not want to participate in the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Guided imagery group

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will receive guided imagery intervention.

Treatment:

Other: guided imagery

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants will receive routine care.