Breast cancer enhances anxiety and depressive vulnerability, profoundly impairing the quality of life in survivors. Hinging on recent research that training attentional control can reduce emotional vulnerability, we assess how improving cognitive function could reduce emotional vulnerability in female survivors of breast cancer.
Door annelies_verachtert op Vr, 20/07/2018 - 09:52
Mindfulness Based Cognitieve Therapie (MBCT) is effectief tegen angst en depressieve klachten (distress) onder kankerpatiënten. Dat is de conclusie van de recent uitgevoerde BeMind studie. Het Helen Dowling Instituut (HDI) ontwikkelde een online MBCT therapie omdat kankerpatiënten niet altijd kunnen of willen reizen voor face-to-face hulp op een fysieke locatie.
Door annelies_verachtert op Vr, 20/07/2018 - 09:44
Group face-to-face and individual internet-based mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT and eMBCT) have been demonstrated to reduce psychological distress for distressed cancer patients in a randomized controlled trial (RCT). This study focused on the long-term effects of this RCT during the nine-month follow-up period, and on possible predictors, moderators and working mechanisms.
Objectives: Siblings' psychosocial adjustment to childhood cancer is poorly understood. This systematic review summarizes findings and limitations of the sibling literature since 2008, provides clinical recommendations, and offers future research directions.
Objective: This study assessed the effects of a group intervention—Siblings Coping Together (SibCT)—on siblings' and caregivers' anxiety symptoms compared to controls,
and potential moderators.
Methods: Seventy healthy siblings of children on or off treatment (7‐16 y old, 41 males) participated in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) with 2 arms/groups: SibCT
(n = 41) and an attention control (CG) (n = 34). Both groups had eight 2‐hour weekly sessions. EG followed SibCT's educational, social, and problem‐solving activities. CG
Cancer survivor preferences for formal interventions designed to provide psychological support remain relatively unknown. To address this gap, we evaluated cancer survivors' preferences for psychological intervention, whom they preferred to recommend such intervention, and how their preferences compared with what they currently received.
