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Emotionally expressive coping predicts psychological and physical adjustment to breast cancer.

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For example, this paper found that women who coped through expressing emotions surrounding cancer had fewer medical appointments for cancer-related morbidities, enhanced physical health and vigor, and decreased distress during the next 3 months compared with those low in emotional expression, with age, other coping strategy scores, and initial levels on dependent variables controlled statistically.
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This study tested the hypothesis that coping through emotional approach, which involves actively processing and expressing emotions, enhances adjustment and health status for breast cancer patients. Patients (n = 92) completed measures within 20 weeks following medical treatment and 3 months later. Women who, at study entry, coped through expressing emotions surrounding cancer had fewer medical appointments for cancer-related morbidities, enhanced physical health and vigor, and decreased distress during the next 3 months compared with those low in emotional expression, with age, other coping strategy scores, and initial levels on dependent variables (except medical visits) controlled statistically. Expressive coping also was related to improved quality of life for those who perceived their social contexts as highly receptive. Coping through emotional processing was related to one index of greater distress over time. Analyses including dispositional hope suggested that expressive coping may serve as a successful vehicle for goal pursuit.

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Dance/dance movement therapy and general wellbeing, depression, and anxiety : a meta-analysis

HJ Peters
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the effects of general/recreational dance and dance movement therapy (DMT) on general wellbeing, depression, and anxiety by conducting a meta-analysis on all randomised controlled trials evaluating these outcomes.

Posttraumatic growth and ptsd symptomatology among colorectal cancer survivors: the impact of emotional expression and cognitive processing

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Understanding Women's Concerns and Coping with Worry of Breast Cancer Recurrence

Loshni Rogers
TL;DR: The Common Sense Model of Self-Regulation was used as the guiding theoretical framework as discussed by the authors to evaluate worry of cancer recurrence, coping with cancer worry, psychological wellbeing and quality of life among breast cancer survivors.
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Reducing anxiety in elective surgical patients.

TL;DR: This article explores how nurses can use communication tools with surgical patients to help relieve anxiety and how this can help improve the nurse-patient relationship.
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