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- Title
Development and Validation of an Auricular Acupuncture Protocol for the Management of Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea and Vomiting in Cancer Patients.
- Authors
Paiva, Eliza Mara das Chagas; Moura, Caroline de Castro; Nogueira, Denismar Alves; Garcia, Ana Cláudia Mesquita
- Abstract
Auricular acupuncture (AA) has been used to manage chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV). However, the application of the technique varies widely among the clinical trials that test its effectiveness. The aim of the present study was to develop and clinically validate an AA protocol for the management of CINV in cancer patients. This study was carried out in two stages: (1) development of the AA protocol for the management of CINV and (2) clinical validation of the protocol. The content validity of the protocol was determined by a panel of specialists, with an agreement rate ranging from 85.7% to 100%. In the clinical validation, when administered to cancer patients, the protocol developed has been shown to reduce the incidence, frequency, severity, and length of nausea and vomiting following chemotherapy, as well as the severity of nausea and anticipatory nausea following chemotherapy. This protocol needs to be tested in future studies, including a pilot study with a sham group and a randomized clinical trial, in order to further evaluate its feasibility, acceptability, safety, and clinical usefulness for the management of CINV.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; VOMITING treatment; VOMITING prevention; NAUSEA treatment; NAUSEA; RESEARCH evaluation; ACUPUNCTURE; CANCER chemotherapy; RESEARCH methodology; EAR; MEDICAL protocols; VOMITING; CANCER patients; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; DATA analysis software; SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC factors; DATA analysis
- Publication
Healthcare (2227-9032), 2024, Vol 12, Issue 2, p218
- ISSN
2227-9032
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/healthcare12020218