Progressive muscle relaxation and symptoms of women with breast cancer undergoing adjuvan chemotherapy

This study was performed to examine effect of PMR on health related quality of life domains in breast cancer women received adjuvan chemotherapy, with one group pre-test post-test design. It was conducted among 15 breast cancer women received adjuvan chemotherapy who met the ctriteria for inclusion in the study with consecutive sampling in surgical outpatient of Wahidin Sudiro Husodo Hospital. The participants were instructed practice PMR for 12 days twice a day. First day and thirteenth day EORTC QLQ-30 version 3.0 questionnaires used to collected data. Average range of all obtained EORTC QLQ-30 symptom scales improved significantly: fatigue, nausea-vomiting, pain, insomnia, lack of appettite; except for dyspnea. Dyspnea are initially mild to no complaints at all, whereas cognitive function requires a longer period to be optimal return. PMR improved domains of health related quality of life among breast cancer women received adjuvan chemotherapy.