A series of bed exercises to improve lymphocyte count in allogeneic bone marrow transplantation patients.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of a series of bed exercises on lymphocyte and T-cell subsets in allogeneic bone marrow transplantation patients during hospitalization. Thirty-five patients were randomly assigned, with 18 assigned to an exercise group and 17 to a control group. The bed exercise intervention was applied by a nurse to the exercise group for 30 min every day for 6 weeks. Patients in the exercise group had a mean increase of 40.9 lymphocyte cells/microL and patients in the control group had a mean decrease of 640.7 lymphocyte cells/microL. There were no significant differences in the percentage of cluster of differentiation (CD)3+, CD4+ and CD8+, and CD4+/CD8+ ratio between the two groups. These findings indicate that bed exercise could be an effective nursing intervention with patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation by increasing the lymphocyte count during hospitalization.

RCT Entities:   Population Interventions Outcomes