Andreis Federica, Meriggi Fausto, Codignola Claudio, Frigoli Ilaria, Prochilo Tiziana, Mutti Stefano, Huscher Alessandra, Libertini Michela, Di Biasi Brunella, Abeni Chiara, Ogliosi Chiara, Noventa Silvia, Rota Luigina, Pedrali Chiara, Zaniboni Alberto
Oncology Department, Fondazione Poliambulanza, Brescia, Italy.
General Surgery Department, Fondazione Poliambulanza, Brescia, Italy.
Rev Recent Clin Trials. 2018;13(4):274-280. doi: 10.2174/1574887113666180409152025.
The main purpose of our psycho-educational groups was to help women with breast cancer, learn how to cope with the physical, emotional, and lifestyle changes associated with cancer as well as with medical treatments that can be painful and traumatic. With this study, we wanted to detect the effects that group action had on the women who participated in it.
We studied a total of 97 patients who participated in 13 psycho-education groups. The whole sample was female patients who had breast cancer with no recurrence or metastases.
All patients were evaluated with the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and the Body Image Scale (BIS). We found no significant effect on anxiety and body image for the brief psycho- educational group for women with breast cancer in this study. It is possible to highlight a statistical difference and hence an improvement between the results of the HADS depression test at T0 (first evaluation at the first meeting) and T1 (retest in the final meeting).
The tests did not show a significant effect on anxiety and body image perception, but the patients reported that the psycho-educational group was an important intervention for their life. Outcome measurement is more complex in psychosocial research because many variables come into play and each phase of treatment is characterized by different types of problems for the patient: physical, relational and psychological aspects are involved.
我们的心理教育小组的主要目的是帮助乳腺癌女性学习如何应对与癌症相关的身体、情绪和生活方式的变化，以及应对可能带来痛苦和创伤的医疗治疗。通过这项研究，我们想检测小组活动对参与其中的女性产生的影响。
我们共研究了97名参与13个心理教育小组的患者。整个样本均为无复发或转移的乳腺癌女性患者。
所有患者均使用医院焦虑抑郁量表（HADS）和身体意象量表（BIS）进行评估。在本研究中，我们发现简短的乳腺癌女性心理教育小组对焦虑和身体意象没有显著影响。在T0（第一次会议时的首次评估）和T1（最后一次会议时的重新测试）时的HADS抑郁测试结果之间，可以突出显示出统计学差异，因此也有改善。
测试未显示对焦虑和身体意象感知有显著影响，但患者报告称心理教育小组对她们的生活是一项重要干预措施。在社会心理研究中，结果测量更为复杂，因为许多变量都在起作用，而且治疗的每个阶段对患者来说都有不同类型的问题：涉及身体、人际关系和心理方面。
