A Smartphone App-Based Mindfulness Intervention for Cancer Survivors: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Cancer patients transitioning to survivorship after completing cancer treatments need psychosocial interventions to manage stressors such as anxiety, depression, and fear of cancer recurrence. Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) are effective for treating these symptoms; however, cancer survivors are often unable to participate in face-to-face interventions because of difficulties such as work and family commitments, treatment-related side-effects, scheduling conflicts, and geography. Smartphone app-based MBIs are an innovative way to deliver psychosocial cancer care and can overcome several such difficulties, since patients can participate at their own convenience. OBJECTIVE:The SEAMLESS (Smartphone App-Based Mindfulness Intervention for Cancer Survivors) study aims to evalu

SUBMITTER: Subnis UB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7248798 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature