Effects of Forgiveness-Based Group Psychoeducation Applied to Cancer Survivors

Hilal Merve Belen

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cancer Survivors

Treatments: Other: Forgiveness-Based Group Psychoeducation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06867640

LokmanHekimU-HMB-1

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to examine the effects of forgiveness-based group psychoeducation applied to cancer survivors on fear of cancer recurrence, forgiveness and psychiatric symptoms.

Full description

This study was designed as a randomized controlled experimental study with a pre-test-post-test and follow-up design to examine the effects of forgiveness-based group psychoeducation on fear of cancer recurrence, forgiveness and psychiatric symptoms of cancer survivors.

The aim is to evaluate the effects of a forgiveness-based psychoeducation program on cancer survivors. After the "Informed Voluntary Consent Form" is obtained from individuals who agree to participate in the study, the Introductory Information Form, Heartland Forgiveness Scale, Fear of Relapse Inventory and Brief Symptom Inventory will be applied. Pre-tests will be applied to the sample determined by an independent statistician. Then, participants will be divided into intervention and control groups by simple randomization method. Face-to-face forgiveness-based psychoeducation will be applied to the intervention group in 90-minute sessions once/twice a week, totaling 6 sessions. In the last session of psychoeducation, a post-test ("Introductory Information Form", "Heartland Forgiveness Scale", "Fear of Relapse Inventory" and "Brief Symptom Inventory") will be administered to both the intervention and control groups. The first follow-up test of the study will be administered to both the intervention and control groups 1 month after the post-test, and the second follow-up test of the study will be administered 3 months after the post-test. After the completion of the study and the measurements, it is planned to provide forgiveness-based psychoeducation to the participants in the control group.

Enrollment: 64 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Written and verbal consent to participate in the study
• Understanding and speaking Turkish
• Being over 18 years old
• Not having any visual, hearing or mental disabilities
• Having been diagnosed with cancer, treated with curative intent and having completed major treatments (surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy) within the last 5 years

Exclusion criteria

• Not volunteering to participate in research
• Having a visual, hearing or mental disability
• Agreeing to participate in another psychoeducational program conducted simultaneously with the research
• Inability to communicate in Turkish
• Having previously received training in forgiveness and/or coping with fear of relapse

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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64 participants in 2 patient groups

Forgiveness-Based Group Psychoeducation

Experimental group

Description:

Forgiveness-based group psychoeducation to be conducted with the experimental group is planned as 6 sessions. The sessions are planned to be conducted in 3 groups of 8-10 people. The duration of a session is planned to be approximately 90 minutes. Group psychoeducation with the experimental group will be conducted face-to-face every week. The appropriate day for the sessions will be decided with the members of each group. The same group sessions will be conducted on the same day and time every week.

Treatment:

Other: Forgiveness-Based Group Psychoeducation

No Intervention

No Intervention group

Description:

After the follow-up tests were completed, it was planned to implement the 6-session forgiveness-based group psychoeducation applied to the intervention group in the same way upon the request of the control group.