Abstract:
This quasi-experimental study employed a two-group posttest design to investigate the
impact of self-care promoting program, coupled with ginger comsumption, on the self-care
abilities and the mitigation of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting in individuals with breast cancer. Forty patients were evenly divided into distinct group: the experiment group and the control group. The experimental group was provided with a self-care promoting program and oral ginger, whereas the control group received standard or usual care. The data collection process employed research instruments comprising questionnaires for gathering personal information, the MASCC Nausea and Vomiting Scale and Self-Care Ability Scale designed for assessing breast cancer patients experiencing chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting. Data collection
occurred over two consecutive cycles of chemotherapy. The gathered data underwent analysis through descriptive statistics, the Chi-square test, Fishers exact test, independent t-test, and Mann-Whitney U test.
The research outcomes indicated an increase in the self-care ability score among
participants in the experiment group as compared to the control group (p<.001). Additionally, during the two consecutive chemotherapy cycles, the experiment group exhibited a reduced incidence rate and milder severity of nausea on the second to forth day following chemotherapy when compared to the control group (p<.05). However, there was no distinction observed in the vomiting occurrence rate and the frequency of vomiting on each day following chemotherapy between the experimental and control group (p>.05). An exception was noted on the day of initial chemotherapy data collection, wherein the experiment group exhibited a higher frequency of vomiting compared to the control group (p<.05). In conclusion, the utilization of a self-care promoting program in conjunction with oral ginger demonstrated the capacity to augment self-care abilities and alleviate chemotherapy-induced nausea in breast cancer patients