The Effectiveness of Mindfulness Integrated with Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy on Perceived Pain and Pain Catastrophizing of Patients with Breast Cancer

This study was aimed to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive behavior therapy integrated with mindfulness on pain and pain catastrophizing in patients with breast cancer.

In this clinical trial study, a semi-experimental, pre-post-test, and control method was used. Twenty-four patients with breast cancer from Omid Hospital of Mashhad were selected via purposive sampling method and randomly assigned with permutation blocks in two groups of intervention (N= 12)and control (N= 12). The groups were assessed by perceived pain and pain catastrophizing scale before and after the intervention. Participants in the intervention group received mindfulness integrated with cognitive behavior therapy for 8 weeks. Data were analyzed using multivariate analysis of covariance.

The results showed that the intervention group had a significant decrease in perceived pain and catastrophic pain (P> 0.05).

According to the results, it can be concluded that using the behavior of integrated therapy with mindfulness has been effective in reducing pain and catastrophizing pain in breast cancer patients. Therefore, it can be a perfect complement therapy for patients with breast cancer