The Efficacy of Mindfulness Therapy on Mindfulness Attention Awareness and Perception of Disease in Women with Breast Cancer.

Autor: Mohammadi, Parisa Keshavarz, Zargar, Negar Akbari, Shahidi, Mojtaba Ansari
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Zdroj: Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development; Mar2018, Vol. 9 Issue 3, p157-161, 5p
Abstrakt: The purpose of present research was reviewing the efficacy of mindfulness therapy on mindfulness attention awareness and perception of disease in women with Breast Cancer. The method of this study was semi experimental and the plan was two-group pretest-posttest. The statistical population included all women with breast cancer in Tehran. The sample group was forty women with breast cancer, who selected by sampling method from Imam Khomeini Hospital and randomly assigned to two groups. The test group treated with mindfulness intervention in eight sessions according to the package. Research tools ware short Form standardized Questionnaire of illness Perception (Brief-IPQ) and the perception of condition index (MASS). The validity and reliability of these tools confirmed in several researches. Data analyzed using analysis of multivariate covariance. The result showed that the hypothesis- there is a significant difference in adjustment variables of mindfulness and perception of disease in the test group compared with control group - confirmed (P< 0.05). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index