NCT06707337

Brief Self-Compassion Program in Colorectal Cancer

The Effects of a Brief Self-compassion Program Applied to Patients With Colorectal Cancer on Self-compassion and Self-care

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 66 (actual)
• Sponsor: Kübra DAKDEVİR · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

In this study, between 1 December 2024-31 March 2025, who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria, a total of 66 patients with colorectal cancer at the Etlik City Hospital General Surgery Department.

Detailed description

Brief Self-compassion Program will be held in a face-to-face hospital environment for the patients with colorectal cancer in the experimental group. This training program has been developed based on the concepts of Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Programs. The content and topics of the sessions in the program are arranged according to the conceptual structure and flow of the mindfulness-based model. The training program was created in a certain flow, based on the introduction to a short self-compassion program (1 sessions), the importance of self-compassion and self-care in the cancer experience (1 sessions), a self-compassionate approach to challenging emotions and situations (1 sessions). There are 3 sessions in the program and the frequency of sessions is 3 times a week, and each session lasts approximately 45 minutes. The training program will be applied to 33 patients with colorectal cancer in the experimental group.

Conditions

• Colorectal Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Brief Self-compassion Program	Brief Self-compassion Program will be held in a face-to-face hospital environment for the patients with colorectal cancer in the experimental group. This training program has been developed based on the concepts of Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Programs. The content and topics of the sessions in the program are arranged according to the conceptual structure and flow of the mindfulness-based model. The training program was created in a certain flow, based on the introduction to a short self-compassion program (1 sessions), the importance of self-compassion and self-care in the cancer experience (1 sessions), a self-compassionate approach to challenging emotions and situations (1 sessions). There are 3 sessions in the program and the frequency of sessions is 3 times a week, and each session lasts approximately 45 minutes. The training program will be applied to 33 patients with colorectal cancer in the experimental group.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-11-15
• Primary completion: 2025-02-15
• Completion: 2025-02-15
• First posted: 2024-11-27
• Last updated: 2025-02-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)