The research was conducted as a randomized controlled study. A total of 74 patients were randomly assigned to the stress ball group (n=37) and the control group (n=37).
Age
18–65
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted
You may be eligible if
who is literate in Turkish,
who was diagnosed with stage 1, 2 and 3 breast cancer
who had the second cure or above chemotherapy receiving treatment
over 18 years of age
female
platelet level \>50,000 mm3
not having any physical problems squeezing a stress ball
You may not be if
those who did not agree to participate in the study
those who received chemotherapy for the first time,
those who had any physical disability to squeeze a stress ball
Any receiving intravenous treatment from both arms,
having had a unilateral or bilateral mastectomy and having a problem squeezing a stress ball,
having any psychiatric disease,
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