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Group support for patients with metastatic cancer. A randomized outcome study.

01 May 1981-Archives of General Psychiatry (American Medical Association)-Vol. 38, Iss: 5, pp 527-533
TL;DR: Objective evidence is provided that a supportive group intervention for patients with metastatic cancer results in psychological benefit and mechanisms underlying the effectiveness of this group intervention are explored.
Abstract: • The effects of weekly supportive group meetings for women with metastatic carcinoma of the breast were systematically evaluated in a one-year, randomized, prospective outcome study. The groups focused on the problems of terminal illness, including improving relationships with family, friends, and physicians and living as fully as possible in the face of death. We hypothesized that this intervention would lead to improved mood, coping strategies, and self-esteem among those in the treatment group. Eighty-six patients were tested at four-month intervals. The treatment group had significantly lower mooddisturbance scores on the Profile of Mood States scale, had fewer maladaptive coping responses, and were less phobic than the control group. This study provides objective evidence that a supportive group intervention for patients with metastatic cancer results in psychological benefit. Mechanisms underlying the effectiveness of this group intervention are explored.
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TL;DR: It is suggested that SGP can alleviate anxiety and depression in patients with lung cancer following GKS and improve the overall quality of life.

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TL;DR: The effects of Chinese calligRAPHY on reducing anxiety and depression levels among breast cancer patients in HONG KONG are studied.
Abstract: THE EFFECTS OF CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY ON REDUCING ANXIETY AND COMORBID DEPRESSION LEVELS AMONG BREAST CANCER PATIENTS IN HONG KONG

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TL;DR: Why would you want to take a potentially "bad trip" just before your last journey?
Abstract: Why would you want to take a potentially \"bad trip\" just before your last journey? Why would you take a drug that can promote anxiety to face existential dread? Why would you want to lose mental control just before you lose physical control? Why imagine death before experiencing it? All of these questions make the idea that at the end of life, psychotherapy laced with psilocybin would seem an odd choice at best. Yet when we started our research in the 1970s on support groups for women with metastatic breast cancer we were warned that we would make them worse, that they would see one another die and be terrified and demoralized. That is not what happened. If anything they were remoralized, coming to value what was important in life, helping one another to face death. As one group member put it,

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  • ...In a series of randomized controlled trials, we demonstrated that supportive-expressive group therapy (SEGT) resulted in reduced anxiety and depression (Classen et al., 2001; Spiegel and Yalom, 1978; Spiegel et al., 1981)....

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TL;DR: In this article, the implications of terminal illness for patients and for those involved in their care were discussed, and patients invited to talk about their experience found great relief in expressing their fear and anger and were able to move towards a state of acceptance and peace.
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