Psychological Interventions in Chemotherapy Induced Nausea and Vomiting in Women with Breast Cancer A Systematic Review

Backgrounds: chemotherapy is an important therapeutic option for women with breast cancer, while having various side-effects. nausea and vomiting are considered as the most common chemotherapy side effects and can impress different dimensions of women’s lives. Therefore, their control and treatment are significantly important. There are lots of interventions for treating them, so this study aims to investigate the psychological interventions in chemotherapy induced nausea and vomiting in women with breast cancer.Material and Method: in this systematic review, researcher search Google Scholar, Scientific Information, Cochrane Library, Science Direct, Web of Science, PubMed, and Scopus Database by keywords such as Breast Cancer, Chemotherapy, Vomiting, Emesis, Nausea and Psychological Intervention. Finally 31753 papers were found referred to 2000-2019. After removing the repeated and unrelated papers, 6 clinical and quasi experimental trials were assessed by Jadad scale.Result: Psychological interventions on chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting among women with breast cancer include Progressive Muscle Relaxation, Yoga and Guided Imaginary. The results indicated that in all studies, except one, the interventions improved conditions and reduced chemotherapy indused nausea and vomiting. In addition to, just 2 studies were suitable basing on Jadad scale.Conclusion: according to the low-quality trials, it seems that we need more qualified studies to approve the effect of psychological interventions along with medication on chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting in women with breast cancer.

Keywords:

nausea , vomiting , breast cancer , chemotherapy , psychological interventions