Combined Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Exercise Intervention for Improving Psychological Well-Being in Patients With Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.
Clinical psychology & psychotherapy January 1, 2024 Yan-Li Wang, Xiao-Fang Zhang, Xiao-Ping Wang et al. 16 citations
Combining mindfulness-based stress reduction with exercise therapy improves anxiety, depression, sleep quality, and overall psychological distress in patients with non-small cell lung cancer who have not had surgery. Sixty such patients were divided into two groups of thirty; one group received conventional psychological nursing care, while the other received the combined intervention. At six and eight weeks after treatment, both groups showed significantly lower scores on measures of anxiety, depression, sleep quality, and the Brief Symptom Rating Scale, but the combined intervention group showed significantly greater improvements than the control group at those time points.