The Effect of Stress Ball Application on Stress, Anxiety and Comfort During Chemotherapy in Women With Breast Cancer

Mersin University

Status

Not yet enrolling

Conditions

Patients With Breast Cancer

Treatments

Other: stress ball

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06460974

MU-HF-BVD-02

Details and patient eligibility

About

This research was conducted as a randomized controlled study to determine the effect of stress ball application on stress, anxiety and comfort in women with breast cancer receiving chemotherapy.

Full description

The research was conducted as a randomized controlled study. A total of 74 patients were randomly assigned to the stress ball group (n=37) and the control group (n=37).

Enrollment

74 estimated patients

Sex

Female

Ages

18 to 65 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

who is literate in Turkish,
who was diagnosed with stage 1, 2 and 3 breast cancer
who had the second cure or above chemotherapy receiving treatment
over 18 years of age
female
platelet level >50,000 mm3
not having any physical problems squeezing a stress ball

Exclusion criteria

those who did not agree to participate in the study
those who received chemotherapy for the first time,
those who had any physical disability to squeeze a stress ball
Any receiving intravenous treatment from both arms,
having had a unilateral or bilateral mastectomy and having a problem squeezing a stress ball,
having any psychiatric disease,