Audio recordings of mindfulness-based stress reduction training to improve cancer patients’ mood and quality of life—a pilot feasibility study

Abstract

This pilot study demonstrates the feasibility of investigating an individual audio MBSR intervention for patients with cancer and provides preliminary evidence that MBSR may benefit chemotherapy patients' mood and QoL. Fully powered comparative clinical trials to asses this MBSR modality to help improve mood and QoL for patients receiving chemotherapy are feasible and needed.

The relationship of emotional well-being with women’s characteristics suffering from breast cancer

“…According to American Health Organization statistics breast cancer makes 23% of cancer in the world and 22.26% of cancer women cases in Iran. Almost for all individuals suffering from cancer, diagnosing the disease brings frequent problems in personal, family and social aspects of the patients and it triggers feeling of dependency, reducing self-confidence and increasing vulnerability and it makes the daily functions and social activities chaotic [4]. Akechi, Nakano and Okaro express the patients' life quality is influenced by diagnosing this illness.…”

The relationship between trauma and health-related quality of life in lung cancer patients : the potential protective role of mindfulness.

“…As emotional disturbances and other negative outcomes have decreased as a result of MBIs, subjective well-being and increased HRQOL have also been reported across studies (Altschuler et al, 2012;Carlson, Speca, Patel, & Goodey, 2003;Hoffman et al, 2012;Stafford et al, 2013;Witek-Janusek et al, 2008 For those that specifically measured the construct of mindfulness, researchers found that MBIs led to increased levels of mindfulness post-intervention (Bränström et al, 2010;Chambers et al, 2012;Stafford et al, 2013). In one study that examined the efficacy of group-based MBCT for 50 women with breast or gynecologic cancer, researchers found that there were improvements in distress, HRQOL, mindfulness and posttraumatic growth post-intervention (Stafford et al, 2013).…”

“…These studies have consistently found positive outcomes post-intervention such as decreased depressive symptoms (Altschuler, Rosenbaum, Gordon, Canales, & Avins, 2012;Ando et al, 2009;Würtzen et al, 2013) and anxiety (Bränström, Kvillemo, Brandberg, & Moskowitz, 2010;Carlson & Garland, 2005;Chambers, Foley, Galt, Ferguson, & Clutton, 2012;Stafford et al, 2013;Würtzen et al, 2013). For example, in an RCT that examined the impact of MBSR on depression and anxiety for 336 women with breast cancer, women randomized to the MBSR group had significant improvement in both depression and anxiety as compared to the wait-list control group (Würtzen et al, 2013).…”

“…Not only has mindfulness been shown to reduce symptoms of psychopathology, but it has also been shown to improve mood as well (Altschuler et al, 2012;Bränström et al, 2010;Carlson & Garland, 2005;Hoffman et al, 2012). In an RCT that assessed the effectiveness of MBSR on mood, HRQOL and well-being for 229 women with breast cancer, women who were randomly assigned to the MBSR group had statistically significant improvements in mood disturbance (as measured by the Profile of Mood States), and HRQOL both at eight and 12-week follow-up as compared to the control group (Hoffman et al, 2012).…”

“…Another limitation is that the majority of studies are pilot and feasibility studies (Altschuler et al, 2012;Ando et al, 2009;Carlson et al, 2003;Carlson & Garland, 2005;Chambers et al, 2012;Stafford et al, 2013;Witek-Janusek et al, 2008). For the few RCTs that were reviewed, none included an active control arm (Hoffman et al, 2012;Würtzen et al, 2013).…”