Effects of chanting and meditation on quality of life and emotional control in adolescent patients with cancer
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emotional control, chanting meditation, quality of life, adolescents with cancerAbstract
Adolescent patients with cancer often have mood swings and irritable leading to low quality of life. The objective of a single-group quasi-experimental study, pretest-posttest design was to study the effect of chanting and meditation on quality of life and emotional control in adolescent patients with cancer, aged 10-19 years. Twelve samples were purposively selected during their hospitalization to the pediatric chemotherapy ward, pediatric department, Srinagarind Hospital, from June 2019 to August 2019.
The research instruments included a video chanting, chanting and meditation guide book. The instruments for data collection were the Adolescent Cancer Patient Quality Questionnaire (CVI=.95, Cronbach’s alpha coefficient=.83) and the Adolescent Cancer Emotion Control Questionnaire
(CVI=.93, Cronbach’s alpha coefficient=.70). The samples had been taught and demonstrated regarding chanting and meditation by the researcher during their admission for 3 days. After returning home, the samples had continued daily chanting and meditation for 4 weeks. The researchers followed up the samples by making a phone call telephoned daily, and called the caregivers once a week. After 4 weeks,
the samples returned to the hospital for posttest. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and paired t test.
The results showed that adolescent cancer patients had a mean age of 14.85 years (S.D.=1.98). Most of them were diagnosed with musculoskeletal cancer (41.70). After the intervention, adolescents with cancer had statistically significant higher mean score of quality of life and emotional control than before the intervention (p<.05). The results of this study may conclude that chanting and meditation assist adolescent patients with cancer to have better quality of life and control their emotions. Nurses may use chanting and meditation to promote quality of life and emotional control in adolescent with cancer patients.
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