To test the feasibility of supportive-expressive group intervention (SEGT) for women with primary breast cancer and to provide a preliminary test of its efficacy.
This study aims to compare the efficacy of a 16-sessions group intervention (Supportive-Expressive group therapy) versus control group (no intervention) in women with primary breast cancer. This study tries to evaluate the efficacy of SEGT on breast cancer patients' emotion regulation, social support, caregiving, and marital satisfaction, and its improvement on breast cancer patients' life quality. This study also intents to explore the moderating role of attachment on these associations.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
50
The supportive-expressive group therapy (SEGT) is an intervention for women with BC that is designed to build bonds and to facilitate changes in emotional expression and regulation taking into account the role that emotions play in physiologic function, intimately related to the progression of the disease. It is based on seven main themes: building bonds, expressing feelings, detoxifying dying, reordering life priorities, improve support from and communication with family and friends, fortifying families, dealing with doctors, and control pain and anxiety. Although originally developed according to an existential perspective, recently the supportive-expressive group therapy has been used according to an attachment framework.
Tânia Brandão
Porto, Porto District, Portugal
RECRUITINGChange in quality of life across time
The World Health Organization Quality of Life - BREF
Time frame: T0 - before the intervention; T1 - 2 months later; T2 - 4 months later; T3 - 10 months later
Change in emotion suppression across time
The Emotion Regulation Questionnaire
Time frame: T0 - before the intervention; T1 - 2 months later; T2 - 4 months later; T3 - 10 months later
Change in emotional self-efficacy across time
The Stanford Emotional Self-Efficacy Scale-Cancer
Time frame: T0 - before the intervention; T1 - 2 months later; T2 - 4 months later; T3 - 10 months later
Change in cognitive emotion across time
The Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire
Time frame: T0 - before the intervention; T1 - 2 months later; T2 - 4 months later; T3 - 10 months later
Change in social support across time
The Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support
Time frame: T0 - before the intervention; T1 - 2 months later; T2 - 4 months later; T3 - 10 months later
Change in caregiving across time
The Caregiving Questionnaire
Time frame: T0 - before the intervention; T1 - 2 months later; T2 - 4 months later; T3 - 10 months later
Change in marital relationship across time
Relationship Assessment Scale
Time frame: T0 - before the intervention; T1 - 2 months later; T2 - 4 months later; T3 - 10 months later
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