Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction in Cancer Treatment (SASO)

Universität Duisburg-Essen

Status: Completed

Conditions: Neoplasms

Treatments: Behavioral: Mindfulness-based day-care clinic group program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01303822

11-4600

Details and patient eligibility

About

Emotional and mental symptoms are common consequences of cancer diagnosis and treatment. Coping with these symptoms seems to be influenced by interpretation of illness, locus of health control and spiritual attitudes in dealing with illness.

Mindfulness-based stress reduction has been shown to reduce physical and mental symptoms in cancer patients.

The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of a mindfulness-based day-care clinic group program on quality of life, anxiety and depression in cancer patients and to evaluate the association with coping styles, spiritual attitudes in dealing with illness, mindfulness and interpretation of illness.

Enrollment: 117 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosis of cancer
• Physical and mental ability to participate in the program

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnancy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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117 participants in 1 patient group

Mindfulness-based day-care clinic group program

Experimental group

Description:

11 weeks of mindfulness-based day-care clinic group program. 6 hours per week.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindfulness-based day-care clinic group program