Influence of eight-section brocade on the quality of life of chemotherapy patients after breast cancer radical mastectomy

Objective To explore the influence of eight-section brocade on the quality of life of chemotherapy patients after breast cancer radical mastectomy. Methods A total of 80 chemotherapy patients after breast cancer radical mastectomy were chosen and were randomly divided into observation group and control group, 40 cases of each group.Routine rehabilitation exercise was applied to the control group and the eight-section brocade exercise and routine rehabilitation exercise was applied to the observation group.It totally took 60 minutes to do eight-section brocade exercise, twice a day.The SDS and FACT-B Chineses version(V4.0) of the patients of the two groups before and after intervention were evaluated. Results Before intervention, there was no statistical significance in terms of the differences of scores of SDS and FACT-B of two groups (P>0.05). The score of SDS and FACT-B of the observation group was higher than that of control group after intervention (P<0.001). Conclusions The eight-section brocade exercise can effectively promote breast cancer patients' limb functional recovery, increase the comfort during chemotherapy, decrease patients' depression and improve the quality of life of the patients. Key words: Radical mastectomy for breast cancer; Chemotherapy; The eight-section brocade exercise; Quality of Life