The Adverse Effects of Chemotherapy among children with Cancer

FM has been practiced for thousand of years in different parts of the world, including Egypt, India and China. Objectives 1.To identify the level of nausea, vomiting, insomnia, fatigue among the control and experimental group children before chemotherapy administration. 2,3,4,5 are to assess the efficacy of FM in reducing the CINV, Insomnia, and Fatigue among children with haematological and solid tumors respectively.Materials &Methods The tool consists of 3 sections . I Demographic profile,II Clinical profile, III Modified (NCICTC) version 3.0 was used to explore the AE of chemotherapy and its severity. Sampling technique adopted cluster randomization, the size 140 children the first 70 were selected for the control group and the next 70 were allotted for the experimental group. The Factorial research design was used [2 X 4 X 10 (2 X 5)] with repeated measures for the last variable.Results The non significant PCL- AE assessment between the control and experimental groups shows that both groups were more or less similar and comparable.

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Prof. Dr. P. Chitra has done her bachelors in Nursing and Masters in Child Heath Nursing from Rani Meiyyammai College of Nursing, Annamalai University and Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University, Chennai respectively and received her doctorate in Pediatric Nursing from Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu, India.