Beneficial effects of pranic meditation on the mental health and quality of life of breast cancer survivors

Integrative Cancer Therapies

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 341-350

  Castellar, Juarez I ^a   Fernandes, César A ^a   Tosta, C Eduardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

biometenergy; breast cancer; intentionality; mental health; pranic meditation; quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVOR; CANCER THERAPY; CONSTIPATION; DEATH; DIARRHEA; DYSPNEA; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FINANCIAL DEFICIT; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HAIR LOSS; HUMAN; LOSS OF APPETITE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDITATION; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL STRESS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PAIN; PATIENT HISTORY OF MASTECTOMY; PRANIC MEDITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELAXATION TRAINING; SEXUALITY; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TREATMENT DURATION; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT RADIOTHERAPY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SURVIVOR;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY; MEDITATION; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84904206454     PISSN: 15347354     EISSN: 1552695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534735414534730     Document Type: Article

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