December 14, 2015
Panagiota Kostopoulou-Grolleau, « Impact of psychotherapeutic relaxation interventions on emotional adjustment, quality of life and body image in hematologic cancer patients hospitalized in a sterile hospital's area for a bone marrow transplantation », Theses.fr, ID : 10670/1.rzhjm3
Introduction: The psychological care of patients during the process of bone marrowtransplantation for a hematological cancer is part of the therapeutic process. This study hastwo objectives: (1) to test at a short and medium term the impact of psychotherapeuticrelaxation, Sapir’s method, on the psychological adjustment of patients with hematologiccancer hospitalized at a sterile hospital’s room for bone marrow transplantation; (2) toexamine weather dispositional variables (alexithymia, optimism) and transactional variables(coping, perceived social support) can influence this impact.Method: 39 patients were included. The experimental group (N=20) received a care ofpsychotherapeutic relaxation while the control group received a traditional psychologicalfollow-up. Patients were evaluated 4 days before transplantation (T1), 45 days aftertransplantation (T2) and 100 days post-transplantation (T3), respectively. Personalityvariables (alexithymia, optimism), adjustment of cancer variables (emotional state, bodyimage, quality of life) and transactional variables (coping, perceived social support) weremeasured.Results: The patients in the experimental group at T3 are significantly less anxious(p