The Efficacy of Mindfulness Therapy on Mindfulness Attention Awareness and Perception of Disease in Women with Breast Cancer
Parisa Mohammadi, Negar Akbari Zargar, Mojtaba Ansari Shahidi
Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development 2018 DOI: 10.5958/0976-5506.2018.00201.2 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Quasi-experimental two-group pretest-posttest study Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Sample size | 40 |
| Population | Women with breast cancer in Tehran, recruited from Imam Khomeini Hospital |
| Duration | Eight sessions |
| Measures | Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire (Brief-IPQ), Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MASS) |
| Topics | Meditation |
| Citations | 3 |
| Key findings | The authors report that mindfulness therapy produced a significant difference in mindfulness attention awareness and illness perception in the intervention group compared with the control group (P < 0.05), confirming their hypothesis. The abstract provides no effect sizes or mean values. |
Abstract
The purpose of present research was reviewing the efficacy of mindfulness therapy on mindfulness attention awareness and perception of disease in women with Breast Cancer. The method of this study was semi experimental and the plan was two-group pretest-posttest. The statistical population included all women with breast cancer in Tehran. The sample group was forty women with breast cancer, who selected by sampling method from Imam Khomeini Hospital and randomly assigned to two groups. The test group treated with mindfulness intervention in eight sessions according to the package. Research tools ware short Form standardized Questionnaire of illness Perception (Brief-IPQ) and the perception of condition index (MASS). The validity and reliability of these tools confirmed in several researches. Data analyzed using analysis of multivariate covariance. The result showed that the hypothesis-there is a significant difference in adjustment variables of mindfulness and perception of disease in the test group compared with control group-confirmed (P< 0.05).
Comparable studies
Other experimental studies on meditation, most cited first.
| Study | Year | Design | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| The benefits of being present: Mindfulness and its role in psychological well-being. Cancer patients (clinical intervention study) | 2003 | Mixed methods: scale development, correlational, quasi-experimental, laboratory, experience-sampling, and clinical intervention study | |
| Loving-kindness meditation increases social connectedness. | 2008 | Controlled laboratory experiment | |
| Mindfulness and mind-wandering: Finding convergence through opposing constructs. | 2012 | Two studies: correlational study and experimental study | |
| Mental Training Enhances Attentional Stability: Neural and Behavioral Evidence | 2009 | Experimental study | |
| Mindfulness meditation and substance use in an incarcerated population. Incarcerated population | 2006 | Quasi-experimental with treatment-as-usual control condition |