Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. Palliative care is the active holistic treatment of people of all ages who have serious health-related suffering as a result of severe illness, and especially of those who are close to the end of life. Palliative care is provided to cancer patients who experience serious suffering that cannot be relieved without professional intervention and that compromises physical, social, spiritual, and emotional functioning.
A straightforward, low-risk, and affordable palliative care approach may be provided through aromatherapy, a type of complementary and alternative medicine. The study objective is to assess the comparative effectiveness of massage, aromatherapy massage, and massage combined with aromatherapy inhalation on cancer patients receiving palliative care.
A total of participants who were divided into four groups at random. The first group, designated as the control group, received standard hospital nursing care, the second group received massage only using the odorless almond carrier oil , the third group received massage with lavender oil, and the fourth group received combined inhalation and massage aromatherapy.
On the RSCL, combined aromatherapy performed best. In terms of reported physical symptoms, psychological symptoms, and activities, there were statistically significant differences between the scores of the control group and each of the experimental groups. When paired with aromatherapy inhalation, massage has a positive effect on physical, psychological symptoms, activities, and overall quality of life for cancer patients receiving early palliative care.
Nurses and other healthcare providers are recommended to support programs that provide message therapy to reduce reported bodily symptoms, psychological problems, and limited activities among cancer patients. Cancer incidence rates have been substantially growing worldwide. In , there were A rise in the number of cancer patients who experience cancer-related complaints and issues goes hand in hand with this growing burden.
