Developing and testing the effectiveness of a videoconferencing,meaning-centered coping program among Turkish women with breast cancer: A pilot randomized trial
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Developing and testing the effectiveness of a videoconferencing,meaning-centered coping program among Turkish women with breast cancer: A pilot randomized trial
This pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) investigated the preliminary effects of an 8-week videoconferencing meaning-centered coping program (MCCP) on women diagnosed with breast cancer. Forty-one participants with stage I, II, or III breast cancer were randomly assigned to either the MCCP or the waitlist control (WLC) group. Data were collected at baseline and after the intervention. MCCP recipients were also assessed at a 2-month follow-up. The results showed that the MCCP group had significantly greater improvements in the presence of meaning, posttraumatic growth, appraisal of breast cancer as a challenge, and anxiety, with a large effect size, compared with the WLC. In addition, improvement in the presence of meaning was observed from baseline to post-intervention and maintained at the 2-month follow-up in the MCCP group. These findings suggest that videoconferencing MCCP is a promising intervention for supporting patients’ meaning-making processes.
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