Effectiveness of applying progressive muscle relaxation technique on quality of life of patients with multiple sclerosis

Menopausal women shows common symptoms which includes night sweats and hot flushes, heart distress, disturbances in sleep, depression, irritability, anxiousness, weight changes, physical and mental fatigue, joint and muscle pain. This affects the Quality Of Life of the Menopausal women. Pilates Training has proven beneficial for enhancing QOL in menopausal women but there is paucity of evidence of effect of Progressive Muscle Relaxation Technique in Menopausal women on QOL. The research is an initiative study that focuses on the effectiveness of PMRT on the various aspects of Quality Of Life of the menopausal women and comparison of the Pilates training and PMRT in order to enhance the QOL of participants. Effect of Pilates training & Progressive Muscle Relaxation Technique on menopausal women’s QOL and comparison of both the technique. Methods: 42 participants aged >45 years will be randomly categorized in two groups: Group A (n= 21) and Group B (n=21). The study duration will be of 6 months. The pre and post Intervention will be taken from both the group and data will be analyzed with the help of main outcome measure which is Menopause specific Quality Of Life. Subject showed significant improvement in physical and psychosocial domain of MENQOL followed by both the intervention and Pilates Training has been seen more effective than PMRT. The study concluded that both the Pilates and Progressive Muscle Relaxation Therapy helped in improving the patients QOL.

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Manfaat Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR) sebagai intervensi keperawatan dalam meningkatkan Quality of Life (QOL) wanita kanker payudara yang menjalani kemoterapi

Indonesian Journal of Nursing Research (IJNR) ◽

10.35473/ijnr.v2i1.233 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Anastasia Diah Larasati ◽

Anggorowati Anggorowati ◽

Andrew Johan

Keyword(s):

Breast Cancer ◽

Quality Of Life ◽

Stress Reduction ◽

Muscle Relaxation ◽

Epidemiological Data ◽

Review Literature ◽

Progressive Muscle Relaxation ◽

Literature Study ◽

Patient Will

Based on epidemiological data, the incidence recorded globally by theInternational Agency for Research On Cancer (IARC) in 2012, as many as 43.3women had breast cancer. The patient will undergoing chemotherapy andexperience various disturbing symptoms. Various complaints can affect QOL.One of the therapies recommended by the journal Oncology Nursing is thetherapy of Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR).Objective: To find out the benefits of PMR as one of the nursing interventions indealing with the quality of life for women Ca. Mammae is undergoingchemotherapyThe method used in this paper is a review literature study. Databases used insource search are CINAHL, PubMed, Science Direct, and Medline. The criterionof inclusion in literature search is the year of article publishing starting in 2010until 2018, and the English full article. Search keywords are Progressive MuscleRelaxation, breast cancer, quality of life and chemotherapy. Literature analysisuses PICOT (Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome, and Time).Based on the analysis found 5 themes, namely the quality of life characteristicsof patients undergoing chemotherapy, PMR as a relaxation therapy, PMR as apsychological stress reduction intervention, PMR as an intervention to increasemuscle metabolism, and PMR as a pain reduction intervention.Patients who undergoing chemotherapy will experience a decrease in QOL. PMRis a recommended intervention to improve patient QOL.

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