Cognitive distraction and relaxation training for the control of side effects due to cancer chemotherapy

Vasterling, Jennifer J.; Jenkins, Richard A.; Tope, Denise M.; Burish, Thomas G.

doi:10.1007/bf00844755

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“…Though age is regularly ascribed as an effect on anxiety during cancer treatment (Cohen, 2014;Jacobsen et al, 1993), this was not the case in the current sample although a wide age range was covered. We found that rather physical symptoms experienced while undergoing chemotherapy influence a persons' general vulnerability to react anxiously (state anxiety), explaining why interventions that address chemotherapy side-effects are also effective in reducing anxiety (Vasterling et al, 1993;Yoo et al, 2005). However, when symptom burden and trait anxiety were regressed together on state anxiety levels, the situational anxiogenic effects of symptom burden disappeared.…”

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Trajectories and predictors of state and trait anxiety in patients receiving chemotherapy for breast and colorectal cancer: Results from a longitudinal study

Schneider

Kotronoulas

Papadopoulou

et al. 2016

European Journal of Oncology Nursing

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Trajectories and predictors of state and trait anxiety in patients receiving chemotherapy for breast and colorectal cancer: Results from a longitudinal study

Schneider

Kotronoulas

Papadopoulou

et al. 2016

European Journal of Oncology Nursing

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“…A similar study (Vasterling, Jenkins, Tope, & Burish, 1993) compared patient groups provided cognitive distraction through video games or standard relaxation training with a control group of young cancer patients. The patients in the video game distraction group and the patients in the relaxation-training group reported less nausea prior to chemotherapy and had lower blood pressure following chemotherapy compared with controls.…”

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Video Games in Health Care: Closing the Gap

Kato

2010

Review of General Psychology

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Although a great deal of media attention has been given to the negative effects of playing video games, relatively less attention has been paid to the positive effects of engaging in this activity. Video games in health care provide ample examples of innovative ways to use existing commercial games for health improvement or surgical training. Tailor-made games help patients be more adherent to treatment regimens and train doctors how to manage patients in different clinical situations. In this review, examples in the scientific literature of commercially available and tailor-made games used for education and training with patients and medical students and doctors are summarized. There is a history of using video games with patients from the early days of gaming in the 1980s, and this has evolved into a focus on making tailor-made games for different disease groups, which have been evaluated in scientific trials more recently. Commercial video games have been of interest regarding their impact on surgical skill. More recently, some basic computer games have been developed and evaluated that train doctors in clinical skills. The studies presented in this article represent a body of work outlining positive effects of playing video games in the area of health care.

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“…Many of the same interventions that are effective in controlling NV have been used with success for ANV. 57,58 One such intervention that might delay or prevent conditioned side effects of treatment 59 is progressive muscle relaxation (PMR), in which one learns to relax by tensing and releasing specific muscle groups in a progressive manner. 56 Patients who practice PMR have significantly less nausea during and immediately after chemotherapy 60 and experience a reduced duration of NV.…”

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Chemotherapy-induced Nausea and Vomiting

Mustian

Darling

Janelsins

et al. 2008

Oncology &Amp; Hematology Review (US)

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Despite treatment advances, nausea and vomiting, especially anticipatory nausea and vomiting, delayed nausea and vomiting and nausea alone, are still the most common, expected and feared side effects among patients receiving chemotherapy. Of the 70 to 80% of cancer patients who experience chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting many will delay or refuse future chemotherapy treatments and contemplate stopping all treatments because of fear of further nausea and vomiting. The purpose of this chapter is to provide an overview of the pathopsychophysiology of CINV, the recommended guidelines for standard treatment, and highlight newer targeted treatment approaches.

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Cognitive distraction and relaxation training for the control of side effects due to cancer chemotherapy

Cited by 135 publications

References 29 publications

Trajectories and predictors of state and trait anxiety in patients receiving chemotherapy for breast and colorectal cancer: Results from a longitudinal study

Trajectories and predictors of state and trait anxiety in patients receiving chemotherapy for breast and colorectal cancer: Results from a longitudinal study

Video Games in Health Care: Closing the Gap

Chemotherapy-induced Nausea and Vomiting

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