Mindful Yoga for women with metastatic breast cancer: design of a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Women with metastatic breast cancer (MBC) have average life expectancies of about 2 years, and report high levels of disease-related symptoms including pain, fatigue, sleep disturbance, psychological distress, and functional impairment. There is growing recognition of the limitations of medical approaches to managing such symptoms. Yoga is a mind-body discipline that has demonstrated a positive impact on psychological and functional health in early stage breast cancer patients and survivors, but has not been rigorously studied in advanced cancer samples.

Methods

This randomized controlled trial examines the feasibility and initial efficacy of a Mindful Yoga program, compared with a social support condition that controls for attention, on measures of disease-relate

SUBMITTER: Carson JW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5348886 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature