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The study took place in a university medical center in metropolitan South Korea. Participants were on inpatient oncology wards.
This study had a nonequivalent control group design for a single cycle of chemotherapy.
Significant differences existed between the control and intervention groups in the severity of nausea and vomiting, duration of nausea, and frequency of vomiting.