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Efficacy of a hypnosis-based intervention to improve well-being during cancer: a comparison between prostate and breast cancer patients

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Cancer, June 2018
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Title
Efficacy of a hypnosis-based intervention to improve well-being during cancer: a comparison between prostate and breast cancer patients
Published in
BMC Cancer, June 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12885-018-4607-z
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Authors

C. Grégoire, H. Nicolas, I. Bragard, F. Delevallez, I. Merckaert, D. Razavi, D. Waltregny, M.-E. Faymonville, A. Vanhaudenhuyse

Abstract

Prostate and breast cancer can have a lot of negative consequences such as fatigue, sleep difficulties and emotional distress, which decrease quality of life. Group interventions showed benefits to emotional distress and fatigue, but most of these studies focus on breast cancer patients. However, it is important to test if an effective intervention for breast cancer patients could also have benefits for prostate cancer patients. Our controlled study aimed to compare the efficacy of a self-hypnosis/self-care group intervention to improve emotional distress, sleep difficulties, fatigue and quality of life of breast and prostate cancer patients. 25 men with prostate cancer and 68 women with breast cancer participated and were evaluated before (T0) and after (T1) the intervention. After the intervention, the breast cancer group showed positive effects for anxiety, depression, fatigue, sleep difficulties, and global health status, whereas there was no effect in the prostate cancer group. We showed that women suffered from higher difficulties prior to the intervention and that their oncological treatments were different in comparison to men. The differences in the efficacy of the intervention could be explained by the baseline differences. As men in our sample reported few distress, fatigue or sleep problems, it is likely that they did not improve on these dimensions. ClinicalTrials.gov ( NCT02569294 and NCT03423927 ). Retrospectively registered in October 2015 and February 2018 respectively.

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Unknown 146 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 23 16%
Student > Bachelor 18 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 12 8%
Other 6 4%
Researcher 6 4%
Other 22 15%
Unknown 59 40%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 22 15%
Medicine and Dentistry 19 13%
Psychology 17 12%
Unspecified 5 3%
Neuroscience 4 3%
Other 16 11%
Unknown 63 43%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 33. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 October 2023.
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