The efficacy of mindfulness-based stress reduction in the treatment of sleep disturbance in women with breast cancer: an exploratory study.
Journal of Psychosomatic Research January 2003 Shauna L. Shapiro, Richard R Bootzin, Aurelio J Figueredo et al.
The diagnosis of breast cancer, the most common type of cancer among American women, elicits greater distress than any other diagnosis regardless of prognosis. Therefore, the present study examined the efficacy of a stress reduction intervention for women with breast cancer. As part of a larger, randomized, controlled study of the effects on measures of stress of a mindfulness-based stress...