Objective: To identify the occurrence of changes in sleep before, during and after chemotherapy treatment and to correlate sleep disorders with episodes of fatigue in women with breast cancer. Method: Twenty-six women followed at the Mastology Outpatient Clinic of a university hospital who responded to the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and to the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy Fatigue to assess sleep ...
A study with the objective to analyze the concept nausea in chemotherapeutic treatment, to improve the nursing diagnosis “nausea”. We used the model proposed by Walker and Avant as a theoretical reference and, we conducted an integrative review in the databases PUBMED, EMBASE, CINAHL, and LILACS, with no time restriction. Thirty articles composed the sample, we identified 44 antecedents, being 25 related to the...