Effect of Spiritual Therapy on Health Promoting Life Style in Individual with ER and PR Receptor Breast Cancer

Individuals with breast cancer in health promoting life style face many challenges. Therefore, the present study was conducted to determine effectiveness of spiritual therapy on health promoting life style in individual with ER and PR receptor breast cancer.

The present research was a semi-experimental study with pre-test, post-test design and control group. The research population was included 30 women with ER and PR receptor breast cancer. Subjects were selected by purposeful sampling method with specific criteria from Shohaday Persian Gulf hospital in Bushehr city. They were divided into experimental and control groups, each group consisting of 15 individuals randomly. The experimental group participated in spiritual therapy program trainingin 12 sessions, while control group did not. The Walker, Sechrist, and Pender health-promoting lifestyle profile II (HPLPII) was used for assessment of all participants. Data was analyzed with using of SPSS-24 software and by multivariate analysis of covariance method.

The findings showed spiritual therapy had significant effect on health-promoting lifestyle profile in women with ER and PR receptor breast cancer (P<0.001). Also, spiritual therapy had a significant effect on all subscales nutrition, physical activity, health responsibility, stress management, interpersonal relations and spiritual growth in these participants (P<0.001).

Planning for spiritual therapy training has an important role on the health promoting life style in women with ER and PR receptor breast cancer.