Integrating mindfulness in supportive cancer care: a cohort study on a mindfulness-based day care clinic for cancer survivors

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2945-2955

  Dobos, Gustav ^a   Overhamm, Tatiana ^a   Büssing, Arndt ^b   Ostermann, Thomas ^b   Langhorst, Jost ^a   Kümmel, Sherko ^c   Paul, Anna ^a   Cramer, Holger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^c KLINIKEN ESSEN MITTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mind body therapies; Mindfulness based interventions; Neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER SURVIVOR; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONSTIPATION; COPING BEHAVIOR; DAY CARE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; LIFE SATISFACTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDITATION; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; MINDFULNESS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PAIN; PHYTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAMPLE SIZE; SATISFACTION; AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SURVIVOR;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DAY CARE, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MINDFULNESS; NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84940460335     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-015-2660-6     Document Type: Article

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