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Online Individual Intervention Program to Make Sense of People's Experiences After a Breast Cancer Diagnosis
The unexpected changes caused by the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer can lead individuals to question their beliefs, life meanings, and goals, prompting a search for meaning. According to Park and Folkman's Meaning-Making Model, the process of meaning making functions as a coping mechanism. It helps individuals adapt challenging experiences into their lives, ultimately assisting in their psychological adjustment to stressful situations. Based on this theoretical model, principles from meaning therapy literature reviews, interviews with breast cancer patients, and expert consultation, an 8-week online individual psychological intervention was developed. It was aimed at facilitating the finding of new meanings in the experience of breast cancer and promoting psychological well-being. It includes psycho-educational, cognitive, existential, and behavioral components explicitly focusing on the meaning-making process. This intervention is called the Meaning Centered Coping Program (MCCP). The main purpose of this study was to test whether the MCCP was an effective intervention program for women diagnosed with breast cancer. For this purpose, the study sample consisted of women with stage I, II, and III breast cancer. Then, participants were randomly assigned to the MCCP group and the waitlist control group. A number of reliable and valid measurement tools were used to compare the MCCP group with the waitlist control group and to examine the effect of the program. Compared with the control group, significant improvements were expected in the level of meaning in life, post-traumatic growth, situational meanings, and psychological well-being in the MCCP group.
Details
| Lead sponsor | Dokuz Eylul University |
|---|---|
| Phase | NA |
| Status | COMPLETED |
| Enrolment | 44 |
| Start date | Sat Oct 30 2021 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) |
| Completion | Fri Dec 30 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) |
Conditions
- Breast Cancer
Interventions
- Meaning Centered Coping Program
Countries
Turkey (Türkiye)