A brief mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral intervention improves sexual functioning versus wait-list control in women treated for gynecologic cancer

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 320-325

  Brotto, Lori A ^a   Erskine, Yvonne ^a   Carey, Mark ^a   Ehlen, Tom ^a   Finlayson, Sarah ^a   Heywood, Mark ^a   Kwon, Janice ^a   McAlpine, Jessica ^a   Stuart, Gavin ^a   Thomson, Sydney ^a   Miller, Dianne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gynaecologic cancer; Mindfulness; Psychoeducation; Sexual arousal; Sexual desire; Sexual dysfunction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; MOOD; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL SATISFACTION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEPRESSION; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; MEDITATION; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIECTOMY; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 84862800699     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2012.01.035     Document Type: Article

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