Comparison of the effectiveness of family based group therapy and self help group therapy on quality of life and sense of coherence in women with breast cancer after chemotherapy

Determining the effect of group intervention with the patient's main caregiver compared to self-asserting groups on quality of life and sense of coherence in women with breast cancer

A community-based & pragmatic, double blind, randomized clinical trial with a control group

A study was conducted on 80 women with breast cancer stage 3&4 at Entekhab Center affiliated to Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. Patients were selected by simple non-random sampling and were randomly assigned to one of the two intervention and control groups. Randomization was done using random numbers table. The staff responsible for collecting questionnaires and analyzing the data did not know the educational package content and the method of assignment.

Inclusion criteria: Women with Breast Cancer Stage 3 and 4; Obtain informed consent; Have reading and writing skills; Being at the age of 18 - 60 years old Non-Inclusion criteria: Presence of psychiatric disorders such as psychosis and personality disorders by taking history; Having another physical illness that prevents the person from participating in the research program Participate in spiritual therapy sessions or therapies.

Patients in the intervention group participated in family-based group intervention sessions organized by the psychotherapist 2 months after chemotherapy in 10 sessions of 90 minutes with their spouse or primary caregiver. Before and after the 10-session intervention, quality of life questionnaires or QOL-BR 23 and sense of autonomic integrity were filled in by patients with breast cancer. In the control group, the mentioned intervention was performed only for the patient (not for his/her caregiver).

Sense of coherence; quality of life.

80 patients after chemotherapy and after obtaining informed consent were selected non randomly and easily among patients referring to the Isfahan Entekhab treatment center, and then randomly assigned to intervention and control groups using the random numbers table.

The person responsible for collecting the questionnaires was not informed about which person was in the intervention group and who was in the control group, as well as the data was analyzed by the data analyst after the anonymity. The analyst did not know how the patients were allocated to the groups and the groups were name with an abbreviation name.

Information will be available after obtaining permission from the research deputy of the Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, two years after the publication of the article.

Information will be available after obtaining permission from the research deputy of the Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, two years after the publication of the article.

Cancer researchers, counselors, psychologists and physicians, and especially community health researchers

In order to compare the present studies with other similar studies or perform other statistical calculations, after coordination and permission from the vice chancellor of research of the Faculty of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, as well as sending a request to the email Parinazshirani@yahoo.com, information after the inescapable Identification is available to other researchers.

Send your email to Parinazshirani@yahoo.com with a clear and concise statement after coordinating and obtaining permission from the research deputy of the Faculty of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences.

Send your email to Parinazshirani@yahoo.com with a clear and concise statement after coordinating and obtaining permission from the research deputy of the Faculty of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences.