Helping Yourself by Offering Help: Mediators of Expressive Helping in Survivors of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A randomized experiment by Rini et al. (Health Psychol. 33(12):1541-1551, 2014) demonstrated that expressive helping, which involves three expressive writing sessions regarding hematopoietic stem cell transplant, followed by one writing session directed toward helping other stem cell transplant recipients, reduced psychological distress and bothersome physical symptoms among stem cell transplant recipients with elevated survivorship problems, relative to a neutral writing control condition.

Purpose

The current study evaluated whether word use reflective of emotional expression, cognitive processing, and change in perspective mediates the effects of expressive helping.

Method

The essays of 67 stem cell transplant recipients with high survivorship problems we

SUBMITTER: Williamson TJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5819612 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature