Investigation into Complementary and Integrative Health Approaches for Turkish Patients with Gastrointestinal Cancer

The study was conducted to determine the levels of usage of complementary and integrative health (CIH) approaches and the symptoms experienced by Turkish patients with gastrointestinal cancer. A descriptive study was conducted on 81 patients with gastrointestinal cancer attending the medical oncolog...

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Published in:Journal of religion and health 2018-08, Vol.57 (4), p.1497-1508
Main Authors: Pehlivan, Seda, Süner, Ali, Yıldırım, Yasemin, Fadıloğlu, Çiçek
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Aged
Aging
Alternative medicine
Cancer therapies
Clinical Psychology
Colorectal Neoplasms - ethnology
Colorectal Neoplasms - therapy
Complementary Therapies - methods
Cross-Sectional Studies
Diagnostic tests
Female
Gastric cancer
Gastrointestinal cancer
Gastrointestinal diseases
Holistic medicine
Humans
Integrative Medicine
Male
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Middle Aged
Original Paper
Public Health
Religious Studies
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Summary:The study was conducted to determine the levels of usage of complementary and integrative health (CIH) approaches and the symptoms experienced by Turkish patients with gastrointestinal cancer. A descriptive study was conducted on 81 patients with gastrointestinal cancer attending the medical oncology department of an oncology hospital. In the data collection stage, the patient description form that prepared by the researchers and the "Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale" were used. Data were evaluated via Chisquare and student t test. It was determined that 55.6% of the patients with gastrointestinal cancer applied at least one CIH approaches, and these CIH approaches were praying (80.0%), herbal medicine (57.7%), a special diet (40.0%), therapeutic touch (15.6%), exercise (13.3%) and psychotherapy (4.4%). 68.8% of patients who used the CIH approach stated that they applied the CIH approaches in order to supplement the medical treatment, and 91.1% stated that they did not inform health employees about that they using the CIH approach. It was also found that the use of CIH approaches was not related to sociodemographic characteristics, disease characteristics and experienced symptoms. It is very important that patients with gastrointestinal cancer be questioned in terms of CIH approaches used.
ISSN:0022-4197
1573-6571
DOI:10.1007/s10943-017-0546-2