effectiveness-of-coconut-oil-pulling-on-oral-mucositis-among-cancer-patients-in-a-selected-hospital-at-madurai_May_2020_1588325436_31079032.pdf

Oral cancer is one of the fatal health problems faced by the mankind today in India due to cultural , ethnic factors and the addictive habits, oral cancer ranks in top three of all cancer deaths in India (Mehrotra, R., Pandya, S., Chaudhary, A. K., Kumar, M., & Singh, M. 2008). The common oral complications from cancer treatment include the oral mucositis. Coconut oil is edible and has anti-viral, anti-bacterial and anti-fungal and soothing effect and it has been proven an effective remedy against oral health issues.The objective was to evaluate the effectiveness of coconut oil pulling on oral mucositis among cancer patients.Theresearchdesignadoptedwasquasi-experimentalposttestdesignwithcontrolgroupwithNon-probabilityconvenientsamplingtechnique was adopted to select the desired sample.The sample size was 60.The researcher used structured self interview questionnairewithstandardizedWHOOralMucositisRattingScaletoassesstheseverityoforalmucositis.Coconutoilpullingtechniquewasadministeredtotheexperimentalgroup.The data were analyzed by using both descriptive and inferential statistical methods. Paired 't' test was used to evaluate the effectiveness of coconut oil pulling on oral mucositis among cancer patients. The findings revealed that the coconut oil pulling reduced the severity of oral mucositis among cancer patients