NCT06183164

Awareness Based Stress Reduction Program Applied to Breast Cancer Patients Receiving Chemotherapy

The Effect of Awareness-Based Stress Reduction Program Applied to Breast Cancer Patients Receiving Chemotherapy on Symptom Management Psychological Resilience and Quality of Life

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: Firat University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Implementation of awareness-based stress reduction program in breast cancer patients receiving chemotherapy and examining its effects on psychological resilience, symptom management and quality of life.

Detailed description

The conscious awareness-based stress reduction program is a program that lasts eight weeks, each session lasting 2-2.5 hours and including a 6-hour silence day. In order to apply the mindfulness stress reduction program to the experimental group, the 'Conscious Awareness Stress Reduction Program day and time were determined for 30 breast cancer patients receiving chemotherapy who met the inclusion criteria and were sampled. It was applied to the patients in the experimental group, once a week for 150 minutes, lasting 8 weeks, and consisting of 8 times in total. Then, an intermediate test was applied to the patients. After the interim test, patients were asked to repeat the It applications individually for 8 weeks (between weeks 8-16). In addition, after It was applied to the patients in the experimental group by the researcher, the 'Conscious Awareness Stress Reduction Program booklet prepared by the researcher was given to the patients in order to provide a guide for the patients in the experimental group. During the implementation of the research, no intervention was applied to the control group.

Conditions

• Breast Cancer Patients Receiving Chemotherapy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Mindfulness: Awareness-Based Stress Reduction Program	The mindfulness-based stress reduction program was applied to the patients in the experimental group once a week, for 150 minutes, for 8 weeks and 8 times in total. Then, an intermediate test is applied to the patients. After the interim test, patients are asked to repeat the mindfulness-based stress reduction program individually for 8 weeks (between weeks 8-16). In addition, after the conscious awareness-based stress reduction program is applied to the patients in the experimental group by the researcher, the 'Conscious Awareness-Based Stress Reduction Program' booklet prepared by the researcher is given to the patients as a guide. experimental group.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-10-29
• Primary completion: 2024-05-29
• Completion: 2024-07-29
• First posted: 2023-12-27
• Last updated: 2025-04-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)