Jing Sun, Li Ge, Chunjuan Cao, Wen Yao, Xiaoling Wang
Journal: African health sciences 2024;23(2):298-304
PMID: 38223648
With the development of cancer treatment, the number of elderly cancer survivors increases year by year continuously. Physical and psychological adverse reactions accompany many problems. Among them, the most common are cancer-related fatigue (CRF). Resistance exercise (RE) has been widely used in cancer patients and proves to have positive effects. The aim of this study was to explore the safe application of resistance exercise in elderly patients, and to effectively reduce cancer-related fatigue, improve the clinical outcome, quality of life, physical function, and psychological status of patients by carrying out the intervention. This study was a randomised controlled trial. Two hundred and forty cancer patients were enrolled and randomly assigned to the experimental or control. Results showed that exercise therapy can effectively reduce CRF and improve the physical function of patients. Additionally, their quality of life and psychological state were improved. Authors concluded that RE effectively relieved the CRF in elderly-cancer patients, and improved their mental state, quality of life and mobility.
OBJECTIVE
To investigate the effects of resistance exercise (RE) in elderly cancer patients (ECPs).
METHODS
Convenience sampling was used to select 240 ECPs, who received radiotherapy and chemotherapy at the Department of Oncology of a Level-A tertiary hospital in Shanghai from September 2019 to August 2020, and they were randomized to control (CON) and experimental (EXP). After a 12-week intervention, the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Fatigue (FACIT-F), the 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36), the Connor-Davidson resilience scale (CD-RISC) and the Functional Independence Measure (FIMSM) were used to evaluate the effects of RE in two groups.
RESULTS
After 12-week intervention, the total FIMSM score and the scores of self-care, transfers, locomotion, communication, and social cognition of EXP was higher than before, and compared with CON (P<0.05). However, the intervention did not effectively improve the sphincter control (P>0.05). The SF-36 and CD-RISC scores of EXP were higher than those of CON, and FACIT-F score was lower than that of CON with statistically significant differences (P<0.05).
CONCLUSION
RE effectively relieved the cancer-related fatigue (CRF) in ECPs, improved their mental state, quality of life and mobility.
© 2023 Sun J et al.
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