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Study the Effect of Mindfulness-Based Interventions on Anxiety for Cancer Patients

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  • International Journal of Science and Engineering Investigations

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  • 2016

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Whether being informed by a doctor or finding out by an annual checkup; ‘’you are a cancer patient.’’ The result will be nothing but a comprehensive anxiety which affects the life in all aspects as throwing out of life, and a frustration that is just for a cancer patient. This paper presents how mindfulness - based interventions effect on cancer patients, and presents the psychological benefits to them. Materials and Methods: This is a pre-test, post- test experimental paper included a control group. The paper was begun with mindfulness-based interventions and the mechanism of someone’s thought. The statistical universe contained all patients who came to Kashmar Modarres Hospital. The sample group consisted of 30 patients, selected according to paper goals. They were divided in an experimental, and in a control group (each group consisted of 15 patients). Ketel's anxiety scale was done as a pre-test. No meaningful difference between two groups was reported. Then mindfulness-based training was done for experimental group, while the control group received no training. The mentioned test was redone. Results: The co-variation analysis showed that observed difference between the averages of anxiety scores according to control experimental group were 99% meaningful.(P<001). Conclusion: All we found as the results were paralleled to similar researches: mindfulness-based interventions can reduce the level of anxiety for cancer patients.
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