The association of metacognitive beliefs with emotional distress after diagnosis of cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Emotional distress after a diagnosis of cancer is normal and, for most people, will diminish over time. However, a significant minority of patients with cancer experience persistent or recurrent symptoms of emotional distress for which they need help. A model developed in mental health, the self-regulatory executive function model (S-REF), specifies that maladaptive metacognitive beliefs and processes, including persistent worry, are key to understanding why such emotional problems persist. This cross-sectional study explored, for the first, time whether metacognitive beliefs were associated with emotional distress in a cancer population, and whether this relationship was mediated by worry, as predicted by the S-REF model.

Method

Two hundred twenty-nine participant

SUBMITTER: Cook SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4321533 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature