Does enhanced meaning after meaning-centered group psychotherapy mediate a reduction in depressive symptoms in cancer survivors? A mediation analysis in the context of a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

After meaning-centered group psychotherapy for cancer survivors (MCGP-CS), depressive symptoms tend to decrease. An enhanced sense of meaning may play a mediating role in this decrease. The aim of this study was to assess whether personal meaning mediates the relationship between MCGP-CS and depressive symptoms.

Methods

Cancer survivors (n = 114) were randomly allocated to MCGP-CS or care as usual (CAU). The assessments were scheduled at baseline, postintervention, and at 3- and 6-month follow-up. Mediation models were estimated based on structural equation modeling. We computed the indirect effect of MCGP-CS on depressive symptoms at the 3-month follow-up through personal meaning, and other meaning-related mediators, measured postintervention.

Results

A small

SUBMITTER: Holtmaat K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12042957 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature