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The Clinical Effects of Aromatherapy Massage on Reducing Pain for the Cancer Patients: Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
Purpose. Aromatherapy massage is an alternative treatment in reducing the pain of the cancer patients. This study was to investigate whether aromatherapy massage could improve the pain of the cancer patients. Methods. We searched PubMed and Cochrane Library for relevant randomized controlled trials...
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4738948/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26884799 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/9147974 |
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author | Chen, Ting-Hao Tung, Tao-Hsin Chen, Pei-Shih Wang, Shu-Hui Chao, Chuang-Min Hsiung, Nan-Hsing Chi, Ching-Chi |
author_facet | Chen, Ting-Hao Tung, Tao-Hsin Chen, Pei-Shih Wang, Shu-Hui Chao, Chuang-Min Hsiung, Nan-Hsing Chi, Ching-Chi |
author_sort | Chen, Ting-Hao |
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description | Purpose. Aromatherapy massage is an alternative treatment in reducing the pain of the cancer patients. This study was to investigate whether aromatherapy massage could improve the pain of the cancer patients. Methods. We searched PubMed and Cochrane Library for relevant randomized controlled trials without language limitations between 1 January 1990 and 31 July 2015 with a priori defined inclusion and exclusion criteria. The search terms included aromatherapy, essential oil, pain, ache, cancer, tumor, and carcinoma. There were 7 studies which met the selection criteria and 3 studies were eventually included among 63 eligible publications. Results. This meta-analysis included three randomized controlled trials with a total of 278 participants (135 participants in the massage with essential oil group and 143 participants in the control (usual care) group). Compared with the control group, the massage with essential oil group had nonsignificant effect on reducing the pain (standardized mean difference = 0.01; 95% CI [−0.23,0.24]). Conclusion. Aromatherapy massage does not appear to reduce pain of the cancer patients. Further rigorous studies should be conducted with more objective measures. |
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spelling | pubmed-47389482016-02-16 The Clinical Effects of Aromatherapy Massage on Reducing Pain for the Cancer Patients: Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials Chen, Ting-Hao Tung, Tao-Hsin Chen, Pei-Shih Wang, Shu-Hui Chao, Chuang-Min Hsiung, Nan-Hsing Chi, Ching-Chi Evid Based Complement Alternat Med Research Article Purpose. Aromatherapy massage is an alternative treatment in reducing the pain of the cancer patients. This study was to investigate whether aromatherapy massage could improve the pain of the cancer patients. Methods. We searched PubMed and Cochrane Library for relevant randomized controlled trials without language limitations between 1 January 1990 and 31 July 2015 with a priori defined inclusion and exclusion criteria. The search terms included aromatherapy, essential oil, pain, ache, cancer, tumor, and carcinoma. There were 7 studies which met the selection criteria and 3 studies were eventually included among 63 eligible publications. Results. This meta-analysis included three randomized controlled trials with a total of 278 participants (135 participants in the massage with essential oil group and 143 participants in the control (usual care) group). Compared with the control group, the massage with essential oil group had nonsignificant effect on reducing the pain (standardized mean difference = 0.01; 95% CI [−0.23,0.24]). Conclusion. Aromatherapy massage does not appear to reduce pain of the cancer patients. Further rigorous studies should be conducted with more objective measures. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-01-14 /pmc/articles/PMC4738948/ /pubmed/26884799 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/9147974 Text en Copyright © 2016 Ting-Hao Chen et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Chen, Ting-Hao Tung, Tao-Hsin Chen, Pei-Shih Wang, Shu-Hui Chao, Chuang-Min Hsiung, Nan-Hsing Chi, Ching-Chi The Clinical Effects of Aromatherapy Massage on Reducing Pain for the Cancer Patients: Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials |
title | The Clinical Effects of Aromatherapy Massage on Reducing Pain for the Cancer Patients: Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials |
title_full | The Clinical Effects of Aromatherapy Massage on Reducing Pain for the Cancer Patients: Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials |
title_fullStr | The Clinical Effects of Aromatherapy Massage on Reducing Pain for the Cancer Patients: Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials |
title_full_unstemmed | The Clinical Effects of Aromatherapy Massage on Reducing Pain for the Cancer Patients: Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials |
title_short | The Clinical Effects of Aromatherapy Massage on Reducing Pain for the Cancer Patients: Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials |
title_sort | clinical effects of aromatherapy massage on reducing pain for the cancer patients: meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4738948/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26884799 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/9147974 |
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