Effectiveness of De-Stressful Skills Training On Reducing the Distress of Women Infected by Breast Cancer

Any changes in human’s life is along with stress, as well as diagnosis of cancer occurs the unique distress for the patient. The objective of the extant paper is determining the effectiveness of training the skills of confronting the stress for reducing the distress of women infected by breast cancer. Therefore, 23 women infected by breast cancer referring to Shohada Hospital of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Tehran by means of convenience and random sampling in two test (12 samples) and control (11 samples) groups. All examinees were evaluated firstly as respect to the distress rate by means of Kessler’s distress assessment scale (K10), then de-stressing manner was trained to the test group during 8 sessions each one 90 minute. Control group has received any intermediation. The results of analysis of covariance of distress scores indicated that training stressful skills is effective on reducing the distress of women infected by breast cancer.