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Effect of Implementing Acupressure on Qualiy of Sleep among patients with Breast Cancer

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Last updated: 24 Dec 2024

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Background: An important fitness issue that affects people of all racial and ethnic backgrounds is sleep disturbance. Cancer patients may experience sleep disturbances due to a variety of factors, including cancer treatment-related metabolic abnormalities. Sleep difficulties, such as difficulty getting asleep, difficulty staying asleep, poor sleep efficiency, early awakenings, and excessive daytime sleepiness are common in cancer patients. Aim of study: Evaluate the effect of implementing acupressure on quality of sleep among patients with breast cancer. Subjects and method: Design: A quasi-experimental research design was utilized in this study. Setting:  The study was applied in Oncology Department at Mansoura University Hospitals. Subjects: A purposive sample of 60 adult females' patients with breast cancer. Tool of data collection:  The data collected using the following tools: Structured interview and Sleep Scale. The results: The study found that once acupressure was applied, there was an improvement in the quality of sleep for the study pattern rather than the control group (p value =. 0.001). Conclusion: This study found that using acupressure improve sleep quality inpatients with breast cancer.  Recommendations: Encourage cancer treatment facilities to use acupressure as a therapeutic option to enhance sleep quality. In order to generalize the findings, additional studies with a high sample size are also required.

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10.21608/pssjn.2023.169027.1230

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Acupressure, breast cancer, quality of sleep

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Samah

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Abouelatta

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Medical surgical , faculty of nursing , port said university

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samahgaber2005@gmail.com

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Bilqas

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Wafaa

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Ismail

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Professor of Medical-Surgical Nursing Department, Faculty Of Nursing, .mansoura university.

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dr_wafaaismail@yahoo.com

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Amal

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Bakr

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Professor of Medical-Surgical Nursing Department, Faculty Of Nursing, port-said university

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amelsarwat@yahoo.com

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10

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3

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43328

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2023-09-01

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2022-10-15

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2023-09-01

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109

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129

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2356-8658

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2682-3241

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Port Said Scientific Journal of Nursing

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Effect of Implementing Acupressure on Qualiy of Sleep among patients with Breast Cancer

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24 Dec 2024