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Gholamreza Talebi; Hasan Rezayi Jamaloui; Reza Bagherian Sararodi; Hamidreza Oreyzi; Pegah Bagherian-Sararoudi
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Objective: Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers among women and the leading cause of cancer-related mortality. From its diagnosis to treatment and potential recurrence, it significantly impacts the quality of life and life satisfaction of patients. In fact, breast cancer influences patients' ...
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Objective: Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers among women and the leading cause of cancer-related mortality. From its diagnosis to treatment and potential recurrence, it significantly impacts the quality of life and life satisfaction of patients. In fact, breast cancer influences patients' lifestyles and presents numerous challenges. Unfortunately, individuals diagnosed with cancer are inevitably confronted with their own mortality. Consequently, death anxiety is evident among these patients, often resulting in an abnormal fear of death accompanied by feelings of panic and dread. Following a cancer diagnosis, women frequently experience intense psychological reactions, one of which is the sensation of being close to death. Today, death anxiety is recognized as a critical psychological factor in cancer patients. Moreover, breast cancer reduces distress tolerance in affected individuals. The psychological distress caused by cancer is a specific emotional discomfort experienced temporarily or permanently by individuals in response to particular stressors and harmful demands. Given the significance of this condition, the present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of meaning-centered group therapy on death attitudes and distress tolerance in women with breast cancer. Method: In this quasi-experimental study with a pretest-posttest and follow-up design with control group, 36 women with breast cancer and death anxiety were selected through convenience sampling from Sayed al-Shohada Hospital and the Ala Cancer Prevention and Control Center in Isfahan during 2020–2021. They were randomly assigned to an experimental group (18 participants) and a control group (18 participants). The experimental group underwent eight weekly 90-minute sessions of meaning-centered group therapy. Data were collected using the Templer Death Anxiety Scale (1970), Wong et al.'s Death Attitudes Profile (1994), and the Simons and Gaher Distress Tolerance Scale (2005) at three stages: pretest, posttest, and follow-up. Data were analyzed using repeated measures ANOVA with SPSS-23 software. Results: The results indicated that meaning-centered group therapy significantly improved death attitudes and distress tolerance in the experimental group (P < 0.01). Conclusion: It appears that meaning-centered group therapy positively impacts death attitudes and distress tolerance in women with breast cancer. In Meaning-Centered Therapy, by revisiting the definition of suffering and hardship, individuals are encouraged to seek life-affirming meaning when facing life’s difficulties and challenges, enabling them to cope with these hardships in a constructive manner. If a person successfully finds meaning in the bitter and discouraging events of life, they will be able to endure its adversities. Meaning-Centered Therapy emphasizes the freedom of the human spirit, asserting that individuals are not governed by deterministic laws. Humans have the right to choose their attitude toward any given situation. Decision-making is left to the individual, and no external factor has the power to dictate how one thinks or behaves in the face of unchangeable circumstances. Individuals are always responsible for their actions and words. Consequently, the perspective one adopts toward issues and difficulties is of paramount importance in this therapeutic approach. Meaning-Centered Therapy aims to foster a meaning-oriented outlook in individuals when confronted with hardships. Therefore, it is evident that Meaning-Centered Therapy can influence an individual’s attitude toward difficulties and challenges, enhancing their capacity to tolerate distress. Therefore, it is recommended to use meaning-centered therapy to support women with breast cancer experiencing death anxiety.
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heman mahmoud fakhe; ,Razie Rahimi Cham Heydari
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Objective: In today's era, human knowledge has made many advances in the field of controlling and treating various diseases and medical science. However, cancer is still the second leading cause of death, and in other words, breast cancer is considered one of the most important diseases of the present ...
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Objective: In today's era, human knowledge has made many advances in the field of controlling and treating various diseases and medical science. However, cancer is still the second leading cause of death, and in other words, breast cancer is considered one of the most important diseases of the present century, which is one of the most common cancers in women, accounting for 32% of women's cancers. Even though this disease has a traumatic nature and causes problems in all aspects of life, fighting it after diagnosis and treatment can lead to positive changes, which is referred to as post-traumatic growth. Another variable that can affect various aspects of the lives of people with breast cancer and act as a shield against diseases and traumatic events is psychological capital. Therefore, it is important to promote post-traumatic growth and psychological capital in people with breast cancer. In this regard, the current research seeks to answer the question of whether schema therapy has a significant effect on post-traumatic growth and psychological capital in women with breast cancer. Method: The design of the current research was a quasi-experimental type of pre-test and post-test. The research population consisted of women with breast cancer who were referred to the oncology clinic of Imam Khomeini Hospital (RA) in Tehran from 2019 to 2020. Among these people, 20 people were selected by the available sampling method and were randomly placed in the experimental and control groups (each group includes 10 people). To collect data, the tools of Tedeschi and Calhoun's post-traumatic growth Inventory (1996) and Luthans’s Psychological Capital Questionnaire (2007) were used. Young’s (2006)schema therapy training sessions were conducted in 20 60-minute sessions weekly, while the control group received no intervention. Data analysis was also done using covariance analysis in the SPSS-23 environment. Results: The findings showed that schema therapy has an effect on post-traumatic growth and psychological capital in women with breast cancer (P<0.05). So the average post-traumatic growth and psychological capital in the experimental group increased in the post-test phase compared to the pre-test. According to the results presented about the descriptive indicators and the difference between the two test and control groups in the post-test of these indicators, it can be said that schema therapy increases post-traumatic growth and psychological capital in women with breast cancer. Conclusion: Schema therapy focuses on the deepest levels of cognition, i.e. schemas and the internalized voice of parents, and teaches clients to become aware of the root of their thoughts. It also helps them to evaluate the correctness of their schemas and examine the evidence that confirms and rejects them, and in this way, question negative thoughts and schemas, and change your approach to the future, the world, and yourself. In other words, first the early maladaptive schemas are identified and then they change and adaptive schemas replace them. In the behavioral pattern-breaking stage, clients were taught how to replace the schema behavioral pattern with healthier coping styles. Also, by correcting the schema of incompetence and shame, people realized their personal abilities and strengths and were able to think about their own values and set goals for themselves, which led to their lives becoming meaningful and valuable and they were able to make spiritual changes in their lives. In this way, schema therapy can help a person to achieve post-traumatic growth and psychological capital. Based on the obtained results, it can be said that by using schema therapy, post-traumatic growth and psychological capital can be increased in women with breast cancer.
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Hiva Mahmoodi
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Objective: Patients with breast cancer often experience symptom burden, functional deterioration, and other concerns inherent to a progressive and life-limiting disease. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between family resilience and symptom burden with the mediating role of functional ...
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Objective: Patients with breast cancer often experience symptom burden, functional deterioration, and other concerns inherent to a progressive and life-limiting disease. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between family resilience and symptom burden with the mediating role of functional exercise adherence in women with breast cancer. Method: The method of the research was fundamental in terms of its purpose and of the correlation type based on structural equation modeling (SEM). The statistical population included all women with breast cancer living in Saqoz city in 2022 who referred to hospitals that 150 women were selected by convenience sampling. Research tools included Family Resilience Questionnaire (FRQ), Symptom Burden Questionnaire (SBQ) and Functional Exercise Adherence Scale (FECS). Data were analyzed using SPSS and AMOS software with path analysis method.Results: The results of correlation coefficients showed that there is a negative and significant correlation between family resilience and symptom burden subscales and a positive and significant correlation with functional exercise adherence (P<0.01). Also, there is a negative and significant relationship between functional exercise adherence and the burden of symptoms (P < 0.01). According to the results the proposed model has a good fit (x2/df=0.86, p<0.001, CFI= 0.99, RMSEA=0.06). Also, the direct effect of resilience and functional exercise adherence on symptom burden is significant (P<0.01). When functional exercise adherence is included as a mediator in the relationship between family resilience and symptom burden, the indirect effect of family resilience on symptom burden is 0.51, which is significant (P<0.01). Finally, family resilience indirectly affects symptom burden through functional exercise adherence.Conclusion: These results have important implications for clinical practice and research in the field of breast cancer patients and show the need to develop approaches and better management of these patients in self-care behaviors. Family resilience as a positive psychological factor can indirectly affect the breast cancer patients’ physical performance after chemotherapy and reduce the burden of symptoms to some extent. In fact, increasing the family resilience helps patients to increase their self-management in how to deal with cancer and control their symptoms and indirectly reduce the amount of disease symptoms. It can also be said that increasing the family resilience can be achieved through reducing negative emotions and improving the feeling of control over the disease with the help of post-surgery treatments through compliance and receiving appropriate services and as a result reducing physical limitations. So, it seems that the family resilience leads the patient's ability to make rational decisions and more cooperation with the treatment team, which in turn reduces the burden symptoms.
MAHNAZ ALI AKBARI DEHKORDI; mozhgan bitaneh
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Objective: Psychological capital can strengthen people's sense of self-efficacy, hope of life, resilience, and optimism. therefore the present study was conducted aiming to investigate effectiveness of psychological capital elements training on psychological flexibility and psychological distress on ...
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Objective: Psychological capital can strengthen people's sense of self-efficacy, hope of life, resilience, and optimism. therefore the present study was conducted aiming to investigate effectiveness of psychological capital elements training on psychological flexibility and psychological distress on the women with breast cancer. Method: It was a quasi-experimental study with pretest, posttest with control group. The statistical population of the current study was the women with breast cancer referring to Shohadaye Tajrish hospital in the city of Tehran in three months of the spring of 2018-19. 30 women with breast cancer were selected through with conscious and voluntary consentand they were randomly accommodated into experimental and control groups (each group of 15). The women present in the experimental group received psychological capital elements training (Akhondi, 2017) ten ninety-minute sessions of training psychological capitals during ten weeks. The applied questionnaires in this study included the questionnaire of psychological flexibility (Denis and Vanderwal, 2010) and the questionnaire of psychological fusion (Kesler et.al, 2003). The data from the study were analyzed through MANCOVA method. Findings: The results showed that psychological capital elements training has had significant effect on psychological flexibility and psychological distress in the women with breast cancer (p<0.001) in a way that this therapy was able to lead to the improvement of psychological flexibility and decrease of psychological distress in the women with breast cancer. Conclusion: Considering the study results, psychological capital elements training can be used as an efficient method to improve psychological flexibility and the decrease of psychological distress on the women with breast cancer through applying the concepts such as resilience, hopefulness, self-efficacy and optimism.
Seyyedeh Hakimeh Mousavi; Reza Bagherian-saraoudi; farahnaz meschi; javad khalatbari; bouk tajeri
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Objective: The health literacy for breast cancer patients plays an important role in accessing adequate diagnostic and therapeutic measures. The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of resilience in the relationship between health literacy and specific quality of life among patients ...
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Objective: The health literacy for breast cancer patients plays an important role in accessing adequate diagnostic and therapeutic measures. The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of resilience in the relationship between health literacy and specific quality of life among patients with breast cancer. Method: In this cross-sectional study, 213 consecutive patients with breast cancer were selected based on the inclusive and exclusive criteria. Then, the pateints completed questionaires of Iranian version of health literacy, quality of life and resilience. Data were analysed using SPSS and LISREL software by path analysis model. Findings: All components of health literacy and specific quality of life were significantly correlated with resilience. Also there was a significant association between health literacy and specific quality of life. The findings showed that as far as the health literacy is increased, the resilience scores significantly are also increased. Conclusion: It seems that resilience plays the mediating role between health literacy and specific quality of life among pateints with breast cancer. Therefore, it is necessary to consider the relational model between these factors for developmemt of psychological protpcols and intagarating those protocols in therapeutic plans for bearst cancer pateints.
negar azimzadeh; mohammad hosien bayazi; mohsen shakerinasab
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Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between Islamic coping strategies and mental cohesion with adjustment to illness and pain tolerance in patients with breast cancer. Method: The method of this study was descriptive-correlational and the statistical population consisted ...
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Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between Islamic coping strategies and mental cohesion with adjustment to illness and pain tolerance in patients with breast cancer. Method: The method of this study was descriptive-correlational and the statistical population consisted of all female patients with breast cancer oncology and radiotherapy clinic in Mashhad in 1397, 100 of whom were purposively selected. The basis of inclusion criteria were selected. The instruments used in this study were the Islamic Coping Strategies Scale (Ehteshamzadeh (2009)), the Flensberg et al. (2006) Psychological Cohesion Questionnaire, the Watson Cancer Adjustment Scale (1988), and the McGill Pain Tolerance Questionnaire (2008). Findings: Analysis of data from regression analysis and Pearson correlation showed that there is a significant positive relationship between Islamic coping strategies with disease adjustment and pain tolerance. And in their subscales, there is a significant relationship between behavioral and emotional dimensions with adjustment to illness and pain tolerance in a positive direction. And there is no significant relationship only in the cognitive dimension (0.01). There was also a significant relationship between feeling of psychological cohesion, coping with illness and pain tolerance in a positive direction. Conclusion: In general, it can be concluded that Islamic coping strategies and feeling of psychological cohesion can predict a person's appropriate adaptation to illness and pain tolerance.
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Razieh poorhosseini Dehkordi; ilnaz sajjadian; mohammad raza sharbafchi
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Objective: The increasing growth of breast cancer in recent decades has affected the psychological aspects of these patients' lives. The aim of this study was the effectiveness of compassion-focused therapy on perceived stress and psychological distress in the women suffering from breast cancer. Method: ...
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Objective: The increasing growth of breast cancer in recent decades has affected the psychological aspects of these patients' lives. The aim of this study was the effectiveness of compassion-focused therapy on perceived stress and psychological distress in the women suffering from breast cancer. Method: The statistical population of the present study included women with breast cancer referring to Ala' cancer prevention and control center in Isfahan in spring and summer of 2018. Research method was quasi-experimental. The sample size was 26 women with breast cancer who were selected from those referring to Ala' cancer prevention and control center through convenient method and were randomly replaced into experimental and control groups. The experimental group received eight sessions of compassion-focused therapy once a week while the control group didn't receive any intervention during the study. The instruments included perceived stress questionnaire (Cohen, et.al, 2005) and psychological distress questionnaire (Kesler, et.al. (2003). Results: The results of repeated measurement analysis showed that compassion-focused therapy has significantly influenced perceived stress and psychological distress in the women with breast cancer at the posttest and follow-up stage. Conclusion: Based on the findings of this study, compassion -focused therapy as an effective method for reducing perceived stress and psychological distress in women with breast cancer can be used along with medical treatments.
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hakimeh mousavi; reza Bagherian
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Objective: Health literacy is a broad concept defined in a variety of ways. Health literacy is the capacity for acquisition, processing, understanding of information and basic services for appropriate health decisions. Health literacy is heavily important for breast cancer patients so that therapists ...
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Objective: Health literacy is a broad concept defined in a variety of ways. Health literacy is the capacity for acquisition, processing, understanding of information and basic services for appropriate health decisions. Health literacy is heavily important for breast cancer patients so that therapists can decide on a complex set of decision-making decisions based on diagnosis and treatment when physical and emotional distress. Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women throughout the world. Considering the effect of this disease and its treatment on different dimensions of life, evaluating the level of health literacy of patients in order to improve their health seems useful before any study. Method: This study was conducted with the aim of reviewing the world literature on health literacy and breast cancer. In this systematic study, the terms health literacy and Breath Cancer were searched in the title and abstract of the articles published in internationally recognized scientific databases and all English and related articles were listed. Findings: Then the abstract of the articles was examined and in several stages repeated and unrelated items were excluded from the study. Finally, the final papers were selected for comprehensive review and data extraction. Conclusion: The overall result of this study was that according to the literature reviewed, literacy can have an impact on the prevention of breast cancer and the management of symptoms resulting from the disease.
SHEIDA SHARIFI SAKI; ahmad alipor; alireza aghayuosefi; mphammad reza mohamadi; Bagher Ghobari Bonab
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Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between self-compassion with depression in women with breast cancer with mediator death anxiety. Method: This research was a descriptive-correlational study. The statistical population included all women with breast cancer referring ...
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Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between self-compassion with depression in women with breast cancer with mediator death anxiety. Method: This research was a descriptive-correlational study. The statistical population included all women with breast cancer referring to hospitals and medical center of Mahdieh, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Firoozgar Hospital and Pars Hospital in 1396. The sample size was 397 people who were selected and responded to Beck Depression Inventory (2001), God Attachment Questionnaire to Rowat and Kirkpatrick (2002) and Templer's Death Anxiety Questionnaire (1979). The data of this study analyzed by structural equation method and using smart PLS software. Result: The results showed that the full inflows in the present model are confirmed at a significant level (p> 0/01). These results suggest that both direct paths and indirect paths have a significant effect on depression, but the paths that are more valid to the path of anxiety of death -> depression than other paths. Conclusion: In the formation of depression in women with breast cancer, mental and spiritual factors such as self-compassion and death anxiety are involved.Their findings implied the strong relation among spirituality values and psychological constructs.
mahsa kabiri; Saeideh Bazzazian; Mojtaba AmiriMajd; Mohammad Ghamari
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Objective: Women play an important role as the core of the family, so, their health and disease directly effect on the health of the whole family and community. The present research has been carried out by the aim of examining the effectiveness of cognitive behavior approach on ego strength and communication ...
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Objective: Women play an important role as the core of the family, so, their health and disease directly effect on the health of the whole family and community. The present research has been carried out by the aim of examining the effectiveness of cognitive behavior approach on ego strength and communication patterns among married women with breast cancer.Method: The statistical population of the study was all 40-60 year old women with breast cancer in Tabriz, among them, 30 people were selected by the available method and were randomly placed in both experimental and control groups. The Instruments of the study were a Psychological inventory of ego strength (PIES) and Christensen & Salary communication patterns questionnaire (CPQ), and data were analyzed by ANCOVA method.Result:The findings showed that the difference between two groups of the experimental and control one was significant in terms of ego strength (P
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Eshrat Karimi Afshar; Golnaz SHabanian; Leila Saed Taleshi; Vahid Manzari tavakoli
Volume 7, Issue 25 , June 2018, , Pages 95-105
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Objective:Breast cancer is one of the common causes of fatalities in our country and psychological treatment can reduce the negative psychological effects in these patients. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of emotional regulation intervention on the survival and anxiety of women ...
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Objective:Breast cancer is one of the common causes of fatalities in our country and psychological treatment can reduce the negative psychological effects in these patients. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of emotional regulation intervention on the survival and anxiety of women with breast cancer. Method: The research design is a pre-test, post-test, and experimental group. The statistical population of the study consisted of women with breast cancer who referred to Shahid Afzali Hospital in spring of 2012. The experimental group consisted of 30 patients who were randomly divided into two groups of 15 subjects. The experimental group received 8 sessions of emotional regulation intervention and the control group did not receive intervention during this period. The research tools were the convergent vibrational scale and death anxiety. Data were analyzed using statistical methods such as mean, standard deviation and multivariate covariance analysis. Result: The results showed that emotional adjustment sessions had an important effect on increasing the survival and decreasing the anxiety of women with breast cancer (p Conclusion: Emotions are socially useful and They can be effective in conveying feelings to others and building social interaction, and they can play an effective role in reducing the anxiety of women with cancer.
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M. Akbari; Farah Lotfi Kashani
Volume 6, Issue 23 , December 2017, , Pages 57-73
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Objective: One of the most important factors in sexual and marital satisfaction is sexual assertiveness. Recording to survivors of breast cancer shows unsatisfactory for most of them with a same pattern of sexual activity; this study was conducted to determine the efficiency of four-factor psychotherapy ...
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Objective: One of the most important factors in sexual and marital satisfaction is sexual assertiveness. Recording to survivors of breast cancer shows unsatisfactory for most of them with a same pattern of sexual activity; this study was conducted to determine the efficiency of four-factor psychotherapy (therapeutic relationship, expectancy to therapy, increasing awareness and behavior regulation) on increasing sexual assertiveness survivors of breast cancer. Method: This research was performed using semi-experimental study with pre-test/post-test control group design and 2/5 months follow-up. The statistical population included all married breast cancer survivors who were referred to Shohada-e Tajrish hospital in 2015. The samples were 30 survivors who selected available and randomly divided into two groups of 15 (a control and an experimental group). Hurlbert index of sexual assertiveness (HISA) was completed as pre-test, post-test and follow up by participants. The experimental group attended in ten-weekly, 90 minutes sessions of psychotherapy. At the end, factorial analysis of variance was applied to analyze the data. Results: showed no significant difference between levels of sexual assertiveness in experimental and control group after treatment. On the other hand this psychotherapy could increase sexual assertiveness in survivors with high sexual assertiveness in pre-test tough this Significance was unstable in 2/5 months follow up. Conclusion: four-factor psychotherapy is not effective way to increasing sexual assertiveness in breast cancer survivors.
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Roghayeh Mirzazadeh; Alireza Pirkhaefi
Volume 6, Issue 21 , May 2017, , Pages 52-65
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The current research has aimed at investigating the effectiveness of clinical creativity therapy model on improving hope and happiness of the patients with cancer breast. Method:the method of this research has been quasi-experimental of pretest-posttest type with the presence of control group. The sample ...
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The current research has aimed at investigating the effectiveness of clinical creativity therapy model on improving hope and happiness of the patients with cancer breast. Method:the method of this research has been quasi-experimental of pretest-posttest type with the presence of control group. The sample of this research were selected as available Contains 30 patient, who had with breast cancer. Hope Schneider questionnaire and Oxford questionnaire were applied in order to measure their hope and happiness .For experimental group a period of 10 sessions of creativity therapy was held .Findings:covariance analysis showed that there was a significant difference in hope between experimental and control group And there was also a significant difference in happiness between the two groups .Results: The results showed that the clinical creativity therapy model was able to create a significant increase in hope and happiness of the Patients with breast cancer in experimental group in comparison with control group.Keywords: creativity therapy, hope, happiness, breast cancer.
Alireza Aghayousefi; Mehdi dehestani; sheida Sharifi Saki
Volume 5, Issue 19 , October 2016, , Pages 5-18
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Objective: The aim of the present study was to investigate effectiveness of cognitive – behavioral education on reduction of exhaustion of cancer in women suffering from breast cancer. Method: 30 people were chosen among clients of Imam Khomeini hospital (of Tehran in 1392) and were randomly assigned ...
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Objective: The aim of the present study was to investigate effectiveness of cognitive – behavioral education on reduction of exhaustion of cancer in women suffering from breast cancer. Method: 30 people were chosen among clients of Imam Khomeini hospital (of Tehran in 1392) and were randomly assigned to two groups, experiment group (15 people) and control group. Groups before education and after education responded to cancer fatigue scale (Okuyama, et al., 2000). To analyze the results, the statistical methods of multivariate covariance analysis was conducted. Findings: The results showed, there is a meaningful difference between both groups in components of exhaustion of cancer, so that average of test group had a meaningful reduction after test. Conclusion: In view of changes that cognitive – behavioral education make them in attitude and cognition, it seems that it can have an effective role in making positive imagination in patients suffering from cancer and reducing their fatigue.
Soheila Rahmani; Samaneh Mohammad pour; Bijan Pirnia; Eshagh Samekhanian; Abed Mahdavi
Volume 5, Issue 18 , July 2016, , Pages 21-34
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Objective: Attending to the psychological symptom in patient with breast cancer because of strong influence on Incidence, progression and prognosis of this disease is very important. The aim of present study was investigating the Effectiveness of Meta-Cognitive Therapy on Depression and Rumination in ...
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Objective: Attending to the psychological symptom in patient with breast cancer because of strong influence on Incidence, progression and prognosis of this disease is very important. The aim of present study was investigating the Effectiveness of Meta-Cognitive Therapy on Depression and Rumination in Women With Breast Cancer. Methods: This research was semi-experimental with pretest-posttest and follow-up (2 & 4 Month) from February to May in 2013. In this study 24 Patient with breast cancer who attended to Imam Hosein Hospital in Tehran city were selected by convenience sampling method and randomly were assigned in 2 experimental group (n=12) and control group (n=12) and Structured Clinical Interview (SCID), Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21) and Ruminative Response Scale were administrated as pretest. In the end, post-test and 2 step follow-up (2 & 4 month) was administrated on two groups and data were analyzing with SPSS-20 software and multivariate covariance analysis. Results: The results of the present study indicated that after administrated Meta-Cognitive Therapy there were significant differences between the control and experimental groups (p. Conclotion: Considering the result of study that showed Meta-cognitive therapy in reduction of depression and rumination is effective, can be recommended that psychological screening in patient with breast cancer and attention to appropriate clinical trials for patient.
Mozhgan Patoo; Abbas Ali Allahyari; Ali Reza Moradi; Mehrdad Payandeh
Volume 5, Issue 17 , July 2016, , Pages 105-118
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Objective: Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - Breast (FACT-B) Scale, is widely used to measure health-related quality of life in cancer patients. The aim of the present study was to validate the FACT-B in a sample of Iranian women with breast cancer. Method: The sample consisted of 300 women with ...
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Objective: Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - Breast (FACT-B) Scale, is widely used to measure health-related quality of life in cancer patients. The aim of the present study was to validate the FACT-B in a sample of Iranian women with breast cancer. Method: The sample consisted of 300 women with breast cancer that selected through non-random convenient sampling procedure from oncology hospitals and clinics in Kermanshah and Shiraz cities. They were asked to Persian version of FACT-B scale, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale questionnaire, the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer quality of life EORTC QLQ30. Confirmatory Factorial analysis of the methods, concurrent validity and discriminative, and Cronbach's alpha for internal consistency of was used. Findings: Internal consistency using Cronbach's alpha from 0.63 to 0.93 for the subscales and 0/92 total scale. Significant correlations between FACT- B and other measures also indicate that this scale has concurrent validity and discriminative. The values of fit indices were also moderate. Conclusion: The Persian version of the FACT-B scale is valid and reliable and, therefore, the scale can be used in research and clinical settings to assess health-related quality of life in Iranian patients with breast cancer to be used.
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mehrdad akbari
Volume 4, Issue 15 , October 2015, , Pages 21-36
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Objective: Breast cancer can cause of many problems in physical, mental and social performance, including pain and can cause reduced quality of life. The aim of this study is the effect of coping skills training program on pain and quality of life in breast cancer patients residing in the city of Dezful. ...
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Objective: Breast cancer can cause of many problems in physical, mental and social performance, including pain and can cause reduced quality of life. The aim of this study is the effect of coping skills training program on pain and quality of life in breast cancer patients residing in the city of Dezful. Method: Method of this study is a quasi-experimental research design with pretest - posttest control group. During an informal invitation 34 patients were enrolled in the study were eligible. The patients were randomly divided into experiment and control groups (each group include 17 subjects). Experiment group were received 8 sessions 1.5 h weekly of coping skills program (Lazaruss, Folkman, 1984). Participants completed brief pain questionnaire (BPI) and quality of life questionnaire (European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC)) before and after starting the program. Findings: The results of the descriptive analysis showed that experimental group have better in global quality of life and its dimensions, also experiment group reduced in both severity pain and interference in daily functioning than the control group. Conclusion: MANCOVA analysis demonstrates that coping training caused enhancement of quality of life and diminish the pain in experiment group.
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mohammad narimani; laleh senobar
Volume 4, Issue 14 , May 2015, , Pages 33-44
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Objective: The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of two non-medical treatment methods (progressive muscular relaxation and music therapy) on fatigue intensity of breast cancer patients. Method: Method of this study was experimental with design of pre-test and post-test on multi groups. ...
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Objective: The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of two non-medical treatment methods (progressive muscular relaxation and music therapy) on fatigue intensity of breast cancer patients. Method: Method of this study was experimental with design of pre-test and post-test on multi groups. The population were the total number of females who suffer from breast cancer and were introduced themselves to Shafa Partov Clinic in Ardabil province in order to radiotherapy from 2011 September until 2012 April. The samples (n=45, 16-45 years-old) were selected using available sampling and the Cancer Fatigue Scale (CFS) was used for data collection. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics plus chi square and multiple analyses of variance (MANOVA). Findings: Both treatment methods were effective on reducing of fatigue intensity of cancer patients (pConclusion: It is advised that the therapists use the progressive muscles relaxation and music technique in order to decrease fatigue in cancer patients.
SHahram Vaziri; Farah Lotfi kashani; seyedeh niloofar zeinolabedini; seyede narges zeinol abedini
Volume 4, Issue 13 , February 2015, , Pages 53-62
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Objective: Cancer is one of the most common diseases in different societies. The purpose of the present research was to study effectiveness of behavior regulation training on anxiety reduction among women with breast cancer. Method: To do this study, in a semi experimental research, with pretest-posttest ...
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Objective: Cancer is one of the most common diseases in different societies. The purpose of the present research was to study effectiveness of behavior regulation training on anxiety reduction among women with breast cancer. Method: To do this study, in a semi experimental research, with pretest-posttest design, by control group, 30 women with breast cancer of Cancer Research Center of Shohadaye Tajrish Hospital were accessibly selected and randomly placed in the experimental and control groups. At the beginning and end of the study, subjects were tested by the Beck Anxiety Inventory (Beck & Clark, 1988). The experimental group learned behavior regulation techniques (Lotfi Kashani, Vaziri, 2005) in 8, 90- minute group sessions. Data were analyzed using analysis of covariance. Results: covariance analysis of anxiety scores in the experimental and control groups showed a significant decrease in anxiety of the experimental group by keeping the score changes constantly (p
