Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing (대한간호학회지)

Korean Society of Nursing Science (한국간호과학회)
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Effects of Abdominal Breathing Training Using Biofeedback on Stress, Immune Response and Quality of Life in Patients with a Mastectomy for Breast Cancer

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  • Kim Keum Soon (College of Nursing, Seoul National University) ;
  • Lee So Woo (College of Nursing, Seoul National University) ;
  • Choe Myoung Ae (College of Nursing, Seoul National University) ;
  • Yi Myung Sun (College of Nursing, Seoul National University) ;
  • Choi Smi (College of Nursing, Seoul National University) ;
  • Kwon So-Hi (College of Nursing, Seoul National University)
  • 김근순 (서울대학교 간호대학, 서울대학교 간호과학 연구소) ;
  • 이소우 (서울대학교 간호대학, 서울대학교 간호과학 연구소) ;
  • 최명애 (서울대학교 간호대학, 서울대학교 간호과학 연구소) ;
  • 이명선 (서울대학교 간호대학, 서울대학교 간호과학 연구소) ;
  • 최스미 (서울대학교 간호대학, 서울대학교 간호과학 연구소) ;
  • 권소희 (서울대학교 간호대학)
  • Published : 2005.12.01
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Abstract

Purpose: This study was to determine the effects of abdominal breathing training using biofeedback on stress, immune response, and quality of life. Method: The study design was a nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest, quasi-experimental design. Twenty-five breast cancer patients who had completed adjuvant chemotherapy were enrolled. The experimental group(n=12) was provided with abdominal breathing training using biofeedback once a week for 4 weeks. State anxiety, cancer physical symptoms, serum cortisol, T cell subsets(T3, T4, T8), NK cell and quality of life were measured both before and after the intervention. Result: Though state anxiety, cancer physical symptoms, and serum cortisol were reduced after 4 weeks of abdominal breathing training using biofeedback, there was no statistical significance. It showed, however, improvement in quality of life (p=.02), and T3(p=.04). Conclusion: Abdominal breathing training using biofeedback improves quality of life in breast cancer patients after a mastectomy. However, the mechanism of this beneficial effect and stress response requires further investigation with special consideration in subject selection and frequency of measurement. Nurses should consider this strategy as a standard nursing intervention for people living with cancer.

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