[Home ] [Archive]    
Main Menu
Home::
Journal Information::
Articles archive::
For Authors::
For Reviewers::
Publishing Policies::
Contact us::
Site Facilities::
Webmail::
::
Search in website

Advanced Search
Receive site information
Enter your Email in the following box to receive the site news and information.
Last site contents
:: Review Policies
:: Volume 9, Issue 2 (summer 2014) ::
IJNR 2014, 9(2): 56-63 Back to browse issues page
Investigation the effectiveness of Snoezelen room on anxiety of cancer patients during chemotherapy
A Nikbakht Nasrabdi * , P Taheri Bandari , S Parvizy
, nikbakht@sina.tums.ac.ir
Abstract:   (17480 Views)
Introduction: Chemotherapy is an important treatment for cancer, its provoke a changes in the emotional sphere and anxiety for patients. Snoezelen room had reported the anxiety reduction effect on patients but limited studies have been undertaken investigating effectiveness of Snoezelen room on anxiety in differentiating high-normal state anxiety during chemotherapy. Method: This was a Quasi experimental, clinical study that enrolled 62 patients who received initial chemotherapy .selected convenience and randomly and divided in to ‎two groups of intervention and control. Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Instrument was measured A half hour before and Immediately after chemotherapy. Paired t-test, chi-square and reappeared measures ANOVA was used for data analysis. Results: No significant differences were noticed among the 2 groups before the intervention, as effective demographic factors show (P>0.005). A significant difference was between their anxiety in Snoezelen groups with control group (P<0.005). Conclusion: This study revealed that Snoezelen room on patient will have a positive effect on anxiety during chemotherapy. Taking the importance of the nurse role in management, controlling and Improvement side effects of chemotherapy chronic this pattern of relaxation recommend a necessity to reach to better anxiety control.
Keywords: Snoezelen room, anxiety, chemotherapy, physiological indicators
Full-Text [PDF 687 kb]   (1853 Downloads)    
Type of Study: Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing | Subject: nursing
Received: 2014/06/30 | Published: 2014/07/15
Send email to the article author

Add your comments about this article
Your username or Email:

CAPTCHA


XML   Persian Abstract   Print


Download citation:
BibTeX | RIS | EndNote | Medlars | ProCite | Reference Manager | RefWorks
Send citation to:

Nikbakht Nasrabdi A, Taheri Bandari P, Parvizy S. Investigation the effectiveness of Snoezelen room on anxiety of cancer patients during chemotherapy. IJNR 2014; 9 (2) :56-63
URL: http://ijnr.ir/article-1-1358-en.html


Rights and permissions
Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Volume 9, Issue 2 (summer 2014) Back to browse issues page
Persian site map - English site map - Created in 0.06 seconds with 37 queries by YEKTAWEB 4645