2014/08/01 by M. Victoria Cerezo, Margarita Ortiz-Tallo, Margarita Ortiz‐Tallo +3 · 93 citations
Health Professions · Medicine · Psychology · #Breast cancer #Cancer #Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life #Clinical psychology #Group (periodic table) #Health, psychology, and well-being #Internal medicine #Intervention (counseling) #Medicine #Optimism, Hope, and Well-being #Psychiatry #Psychology #Psychotherapist #Randomized controlled trial
paper · open access · doi:10.2466/15.20.pr0.115c17z7
published in Psychological Reports 115(1), 44-64 (SAGE Publishing)
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This study assessed the effects of a psychological group intervention based on positive psychology in women with breast cancer. 175 women were randomly assigned either to an experimental group, receiving the 14-session intervention (n = 87), or to a wait list group (n = 88) that did not receive any type of intervention. For treatment, a group intervention was applied, based on improving psychological strengths and enhancing positive psychology-based styles of coping. Strength-related outcomes, self-esteem, well-being, and happiness were assessed before and after the intervention. The experimental group showed higher scores on all of the study variables after the intervention. Participants reported improved self-esteem, emotional intelligence-related abilities, resilience, and optimism, as well as positive affectivity, well-being, and happiness. The results show a beneficial effect of this psychological intervention based on positive psychology on female breast cancer patients' psychological health.