Mental Study Of Awareness Of Cancer In Patients With Uremia Psychological Intervention

The cancer and uraemia not only lead to the stress from the physical and economic aspects,but also contribute to the psychological stress.With the changes of the medical treatment model from purely medical to the physical - mental - social patterns,there increasingly focuses on the mental health of patients.Mindfulness just appears under such conditions.And this study conducted on the basis of such contexts.Objective:1,Investigate its reliability and validity of the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale in Chinese version.2,Apply the mindfulness-based intervention into the cancer patients,to study whether it can be effective in helping patients to better regulate their emotions,and enhance the degree of mindfulness and improve patients' mental health.3,Use mindfulness-based training to intervene the uremic patients,to test whether it can effectively improve the patient's degree of mindfulness,and better cope with the disease.Methods:1,This study use 8-week mindfulness-based training which developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn,combined with cognitive and behavioral therapy.The research for each patients are case studies with the former - after - follow-up experimental design.2,The Self-Rating Anxiety Scale,Self-Rating Depression Scale,Mindful Attention Awareness Scale,and Self-Rating Scale of Sleep are as the evaluated tools in the study.Results:1,The reliability of the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale in Chinese version is 0.8742,which is consistent with the former study.The relation between the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale and the Anxiety Self-rating Scale get the significant level. The relation between the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale and the Depression Self-rating Scale also get the significant level.That means the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale has good criterion validity.Finally,through confirmatory factor analysis,it shows that the scale has good construct validity.2,Through mindfulness program,cancer patients and uremic patients have significantly increase in the degree of mindfulness,reduction in anxiety,depression. The results of the subjective report indicate that the intervention can effectively improve the patient's sleep quality,help them to better accept the disease,improve the patient's social function.Conclusion:Mindfulness can help patients to improve their ability of the emotion regulation, their psychological state,sleep state,to enhance their awareness of the daily life.Also, it can help them to better cope with the disease.Therefore,it is necessary to give the patients for the mindfulness intervention.