Group support for patients with metastatic cancer. A randomized outcome study.
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...As stated earlier, one study demonstrated significant psychological benefits amongst therapy participants at 300 days after trial entry (Spiegel et al., 1981), but by this time the majority of patients had dropped out of the study....
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...The study by Spiegel et al. (1981) found that patients with metastatic breast cancer who attended a group supportive-expressive intervention experienced improved psychological outcome on a number of measures (including anxiety, depression, and total mood disturbance) relative to those in a…...
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...…adaptive coping responses from the better functioning members of the group, resolution of commonly shared dilemmas, installation of hope, improved communication, and a “detoxification of the fear of death” (Leszcz & Goodwin, 1998; Spiegel et al., 1981; Spiegel & Yalom, 1978; Yalom & Greaves, 1977)....
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...Previous classical studies have found this correlates too (Spiegel et al., 1981; Stevens and Duttlinger, 1998)....
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