Patients’ experiences of a mindfulness intervention for adults with advanced cancer: a qualitative analysis
- 3 February 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Supportive Care in Cancer
- Vol. 28 (10) , 4911-4921
Abstract
People with advanced cancer often experience significant emotional turmoil that accompanies their diagnosis and cancer-related treatments. Therefore, psychological interventions become relevant to address these impacts; however, there is a lack of research into the psychological support needs of those with advanced cancer (those not yet in palliative or end-of-life stages). In this context, we developed a mindfulness-based intervention, Coping with Cancer Mindfully (CCM), to provide psychological and emotional support to adults with advanced cancer. This article reports on qualitative interviews from a mixed method study of the CCM intervention exploring its utility and the extent it provides psychological support to this population in a pre-post-intervention design.Keywords
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