{"title":"Effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavior Stress Management on Reducing Clinical Symptoms in Patients with Breast Cancer","authors":"H. Jamilian, safoura ghafouriasar, Ahmad Bayat","doi":"10.52547/payesh.20.2.201","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"201-212 Abstract Objective: Patients with breast cancer have symptoms of anxiety, depression and anxiety. This study was aimed to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral stress management on the clinical symptoms among patients with breast cancer. Methods: The was a quasi-experimental study with pre-test, post-test and follow up assessments. Twenty patients were randomly allocated into two groups: experimental group (10 patients) and control group (10 patients). Cognitive-behavioral stress management was administrated in 8 sessions for experimental group. The research instrument was SCL-90-R questionnaire. Data was analyzed by SPSS-25 software using repeated measure ANOVA. Results: The results showed that cognitive-behavioral intervention led to reduction in clinical symptoms in some dimensions as measured by the SCL-90-R among patients in experimental group (P < 0.05). Conclusion: The findings indicated that the cognitive-behavioral stress management could reduce clinical symptoms of patients with breast cancer. Indeed, using cognitive-behavioral stress management in cancer treatment centers can be regarded as a complementary therapy alongside medical","PeriodicalId":55683,"journal":{"name":"Payesh","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Payesh","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.52547/payesh.20.2.201","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Nursing","Score":null,"Total":0}
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201-212 Abstract Objective: Patients with breast cancer have symptoms of anxiety, depression and anxiety. This study was aimed to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral stress management on the clinical symptoms among patients with breast cancer. Methods: The was a quasi-experimental study with pre-test, post-test and follow up assessments. Twenty patients were randomly allocated into two groups: experimental group (10 patients) and control group (10 patients). Cognitive-behavioral stress management was administrated in 8 sessions for experimental group. The research instrument was SCL-90-R questionnaire. Data was analyzed by SPSS-25 software using repeated measure ANOVA. Results: The results showed that cognitive-behavioral intervention led to reduction in clinical symptoms in some dimensions as measured by the SCL-90-R among patients in experimental group (P < 0.05). Conclusion: The findings indicated that the cognitive-behavioral stress management could reduce clinical symptoms of patients with breast cancer. Indeed, using cognitive-behavioral stress management in cancer treatment centers can be regarded as a complementary therapy alongside medical