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Gambaran Fatigue Pada Pasien Kanker Post Kemoterapi
Chemotherapy is one of cancer treatments to kill cancer cells and prevent uncontrolled growth and abnormal cell movements that tend to invade surrounding tissue and spread to other organs. The Side effects of chemotherapy is nausea vomiting, anemia, and sleep problem that cause fatigue. This research aim to identification of fatigue in cancer patients with post chemotherapy. The method of this research is used simple descriptive. This research was conducted in Arifin Achmad Pekanbaru Hospital by involving 144 respondents was taken by purposive sampling technique.Data was collected by using questionnaire that have tested validity and reliability. The questionnaire is Piper Fatigue Scale. Data was analyzed by using frequency distribution. The results showed that respondents' fatigue was at a mild level 11 people (7.6%), moderate level 72 people (50%) and severe level 61 people (42.4%). The results of this research are expected to provide identification to health care profession about fatigue in post-chemotherapy cancer patients to be able to further improve nutritional intake and balanced activity in patients so that the degree of fatigue can decrease or not worsen.
Keyword: Cancer, Chemotherapy, Fatigue.
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