Yoga na redução de fadiga do paciente oncológico adulto: revisão integrativa da literatura

Abstract

Background: Cancer has become the second most common cause of death in the world. This brings negative impact to the patient’s life, interfering with his life quality and with possible side effects from both the disease itself and the treatment. A therapy that can be used to control these side effects is the practice of yoga. Objective: To identify and present scientific evidence and studies that analyse yoga’s therapeutic effect in reducing adult oncological patient’s fatigue. Material and Method: This is an integrated literature revision. The strategy PICOS was utilized for creating the guiding question. There are studies in Portuguese, English and Spanish. CINAHL, PubMed/MEDLINE, Medicine, LILACS, SCOPUS, and web of science Databases were utilized, using the descriptions utilized by DECS or MESH. The subject was analyzed following methodological quality from the scales of Consort (2010), Jaddad et al., for random studies and Prisma (2009) for systematic review with homogeneity. Results: 5.216 articles were identified and 10 of them were qualitatively analyzed. Most of these articles were published in the United States (n=4), Germany (n=2), India (n =2), China (n=1) and Holland (n=1). One of these studies is a systematic reviews and the rest are randomized clinical trials. Conclusion: Publications with a great level of scientific evidence and methodological quality about the therapeutic effect of yoga in reducing fatigue in oncological adult patients were founded in this revision. Proving the practice of yoga important for the clinical practice.