1. Quality of life among women diagnosed with breast Cancer: A randomized waitlist controlled trial of commercially available mobile app-delivered mindfulness training
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Kristen D. Rosen, William Kazanis, Samantha Megan Paniagua, Jennifer Sharpe Potter, and Shaun Jones
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Adult ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Mindfulness ,Waiting Lists ,020205 medical informatics ,Breast Neoplasms ,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology ,02 engineering and technology ,Anxiety ,Dispositional mindfulness ,law.invention ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Breast cancer ,Patient Education as Topic ,Randomized controlled trial ,Quality of life ,law ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,medicine ,Humans ,business.industry ,Mobile apps ,Cancer ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Mobile Applications ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Oncology ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Quality of Life ,Physical therapy ,Mixed effects ,Female ,business ,Stress, Psychological - Abstract
OBJECTIVE The primary objective was to evaluate the efficacy of commercially available mobile app-delivered mindfulness training (AMT), compared with waitlist control (WC), on quality of life (QOL) among women diagnosed with breast cancer. The secondary outcome was dispositional mindfulness. Enrollment, app utilization, and study completion are reported as feasibility objectives. METHODS Women diagnosed with breast cancer ≤5 years (n = 112) were randomized to AMT (n = 57) or WC (n = 55), over 8 weeks, with 4 weeks of follow-up. We conducted linear mixed effects models to examine group by observation interactions on QOL and dispositional mindfulness at baseline, during intervention (5-weeks), post-intervention (9-weeks), and follow-up (12-weeks post-baseline). RESULTS Participants assigned to AMT reported higher QOL, compared with those assigned to WC, from baseline through follow-up t(258.40) = 3.09, P
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- 2018
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