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Introduction: Breast cancer is a global challenge and one of the most prevalent cancers among women. Breast cancer as a critical condition can endanger the patient's mental health but group therapy provides conditions for people to get a more realistic picture of their conditions. This study aims to investigate the effect of group therapy on anxiety, depression and stress of women with breast cancer has been done. Methods: The current study is a systematic review that examines 17 articles that met the inclusion criteria and was searched in Google Scholar and Elmnet search engines and SID, Magiran, PubMed, Elsevier, Science Direct databases with medical subject headings as Keywords psychotherapy, Group, anxiety, depression, stress, Breast Neoplasms, meaning therapy, reality therapy, optimism and their Persian equivalents were published in the time range of 2000 to 2023 There have been. Two researchers separated the data separately and the third one supervised the process of data extraction. Results: According to the reviewed articles, cognitive - behavioral group counseling by challenging and changing beliefs plays a significant role in reducing patients' depression and anxiety. Also, group positivity psychotherapy has significantly reduced depression, anxiety and stress in patients. According to the researches, the spiritual therapy group is effective in reducing depression in patients, and the existential therapy group based on meaning has been effective in reducing depression and perceived stress. According to the conducted studies, group therapy increases patients' awareness about themselves, improves social skills, adapts to the environment and creates social support for group members, which is an important factor in reducing depression based on previous researches. Also, patients can easily express their thoughts and concerns in a therapeutic team and actively adapt to stress with each other's help. Conclusions: Based on the results of psychological treatments, group therapy can be useful as an effective way to deal with psychological effects of breast cancer in patients. It is important that psychiatrists and oncologists cooperate together to determine psychotherapy and group therapy as a useful intervention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
