Humaniora
Vol. 8 No. 3 (2017): Humaniora

Effectiveness of a Brief Mindfulness Based Intervention to Promote Posttraumatic Growth in Cancer Patients

Nurfadhilah Nurfadhilah (State University of Makassar)
Widyastuti Widyastuti (State University of Makassar)
Ahmad Ridfah (State University of Makassar)



Article Info

Publish Date
19 Oct 2017

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of a brief mindfulness based intervention to promote posttraumatic growth in cancer patients. The research design used was untreated control group design with pretest and posttest samples. Subjects in this study were 21 cancer patients that were divided into an experimental group (n = 10) and a control group (n = 11). Data were analyzed using Anova Mixed Design. The analysis showed significant changes of posttraumatic growth in the experimental group (MD=-14,400; p=0,000, p<0,05) and in the control group changes of posttraumatic growth were not significant (MD=-0,273, p=0,914, p>0,05). The results show that a brief mindfulness based intervention, which in this case is mindfulness training and yield significant results towards increased scores of posttraumatic growth in cancer patients. Hence, mindfulness based intervention can be used as one of psychotherapy to help individual psychologically growth.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

Humaniora

Publisher

Subject

Humanities

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