Psychological intervention and emotional regulation expression in adaptation to breast cancer patients
Field study at Radiation and Isotope Centre in Khartoum State
Keywords:
Psychological intervention, emotional regulations expression, breast cancerAbstract
Breast cancer is a common cancer among Sudanese women which require to raising awareness of the psychological intervention that may follow breast cancer treatment will help both patients and their health care providers to ensure that appropriate assessments are completed and available interventions employed, Psychological intervention has also been shown to facilitate psychological adaptation to breast cancer. This makes it imperative to examine and explain in depth understanding of psychological intervention that relate to emotional regulation expression in predicting emotional well being of women with breast cancer. Descriptive research method was used in this study; the researchers selected a purposive sample. The sample consisted of (30) patients who completed measures within 20 weeks following medical treatment. Women who were at study entry, coped through expressing emotions within Radiation and Isotope center Khartoum. The results revealed that Psycho education, counseling support, group psychotherapy are the most effective coping techniques that can be used with breast cancer patients at Radiation and Isotope Centre in Khartoum. Emotional regulations expression technique was very useful for (80%) of the patients whom diagnosed with breast cancer at Radiation and Isotope Centre in Khartoum. Anxiety, sadness, anger, guilt and fear of death are the psychological symptoms which affected (90%) of the women's who diagnosed with breast cancer.
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