A qualitative study on mindfulness-based stress reduction for breast cancer patients: how women experience participating with fellow patients

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1813-1820

  Schellekens, Melanie P J ^a   Jansen, Ellen T M ^a   Willemse, Heidi H M A ^a   van Laarhoven, Hanneke W M ^b   Prins, Judith B ^a   Speckens, Anne E M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Focus group; Mindfulness based stress reduction; Peer support; Qualitative

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSTANT COMPARATIVE METHOD; CURRICULUM; FEMALE; GROUNDED THEORY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MINDFULNESS; MINDFULNESS BASED STRESS REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS MANAGEMENT; BREAST TUMOR; FEAR; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PEER GROUP; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; THERAPY; TRUST;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEAR; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MINDFULNESS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PEER GROUP; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TRUST;

EID: 84959168721     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-015-2954-8     Document Type: Article

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