The effectiveness of emotion regulation intervention on resilience and death anxiety of women with breast cancer

Breast cancer is one of the common causes of fatalities in our country and psychological treatment can reduce the negative psychological effects in these patients. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of emotional regulation intervention on the survival and anxiety of women with breast cancer.
The research design is a pre-test, post-test, and experimental group. The statistical population of the study consisted of women with breast cancer who referred to Shahid Afzali Hospital in spring of 2012. The experimental group consisted of 30 patients who were randomly divided into two groups of 15 subjects. The experimental group received 8 sessions of emotional regulation intervention and the control group did not receive intervention during this period. The research tools were the convergent vibrational scale and death anxiety. Data were analyzed using statistical methods such as mean, standard deviation and multivariate covariance analysis.
The results showed that emotional adjustment sessions had an important effect on increasing the survival and decreasing the anxiety of women with breast cancer (p
Emotions are socially useful and They can be effective in conveying feelings to others and building social interaction, and they can play an effective role in reducing the anxiety of women with cancer.