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Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Rudehen Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rudehen, Iran
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Introduction and Aim: Identifying the main psychological variables involved in the development of uterine cancer and using effective and useful psychotherapy approaches in the treatment of cancer diseases is necessary, so this study aimed to determine the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on rumination and fatigue in patients with cervical cancer.
Methods: This quasi-experimental study was conducted with a pretest-posttest design with a control group and a follow-up period. The statistical population consisted of all female patients with cervical cancer who were referred to Al-Zahra Medical Center in Isfahan in the first six months of 2021. Using the convenience-sampling method, 30 patients were selected and allocated to experimental and control groups (n1= n1=15), randomly. The research instruments included the rumination scale (Nolen-Hooksma and Murrow, 1991) and cancer-induced fatigue (Okmiyama et al., 2000), which were filled at pre-intervention, post-intervention, and follow-up by both groups. The intervention group received Segal and Tizdel (2018) mindfulness cognitive therapy method during eight 90-minute sessions. Simultaneously, no intervention was considered for the control group. Data were analyzed using repeated-measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) via SPSS software version 22 with a significance level of 0.05.
Results: The results showed a significant difference in post-test between the experimental and control groups in the variables of rumination (p < 0.001) and fatigue due to cancer (p < 0.001).
Conclusion: Based on the findings of this study, it can be said that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy was effective in reducing rumination and fatigue in patients with cervical cancer and it can be used as a complementary therapy along with cancer treatments.
Methods: This quasi-experimental study was conducted with a pretest-posttest design with a control group and a follow-up period. The statistical population consisted of all female patients with cervical cancer who were referred to Al-Zahra Medical Center in Isfahan in the first six months of 2021. Using the convenience-sampling method, 30 patients were selected and allocated to experimental and control groups (n1= n1=15), randomly. The research instruments included the rumination scale (Nolen-Hooksma and Murrow, 1991) and cancer-induced fatigue (Okmiyama et al., 2000), which were filled at pre-intervention, post-intervention, and follow-up by both groups. The intervention group received Segal and Tizdel (2018) mindfulness cognitive therapy method during eight 90-minute sessions. Simultaneously, no intervention was considered for the control group. Data were analyzed using repeated-measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) via SPSS software version 22 with a significance level of 0.05.
Results: The results showed a significant difference in post-test between the experimental and control groups in the variables of rumination (p < 0.001) and fatigue due to cancer (p < 0.001).
Conclusion: Based on the findings of this study, it can be said that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy was effective in reducing rumination and fatigue in patients with cervical cancer and it can be used as a complementary therapy along with cancer treatments.
Type of Study: Research |
Subject:
Psychology in Rehabilitation Nursing
Received: 2021/10/25 | Accepted: 2022/01/13 | Published: 2022/03/20
Received: 2021/10/25 | Accepted: 2022/01/13 | Published: 2022/03/20
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