Trial reportPalliative & supportive care2015
A cognitive-existential intervention to improve existential and global quality of life in cancer patients: A pilot study.
Trial report in Palliative & supportive care, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01141933 (Creating Meaning Following Cancer), which is not on this map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Creating Meaning Following Cancer: An Cognitive-existential Intervention to Improve Existential and Global Quality of Life
Who cites it
7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Pooled it
- The need for another tool: Australian healthcare professionals on the use of psilocybin for existential distress in people with cancer.BMC medicine · 2026Article
- Causal Attributions in Patients With Breast and Gynecological Cancers: A Scoping Review.Psycho-oncology · 2025Article
- Health-promoting behavior to enhance perceived meaning and control of life in chronic disease patients with role limitations and depressive symptoms: a network approach.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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- Existential Quality of Life and Associated Factors in Cancer Patients Receiving Palliative Care.Journal of pain and symptom management · 2022Article
- The Present State of Existential Interventions Within Palliative Care.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Review
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Abstract
objectiveWe developed a specific cognitive-existential intervention to improve existential distress in nonmetastatic cancer patients. The present study reports the feasibility of implementing and evaluating this intervention, which involved 12 weekly sessions in both individual and group formats, and explores the efficacy of the intervention on existential and global quality of life (QoL) measures.
methodSome 33 nonmetastatic cancer patients were randomized between the group intervention, the individual intervention, and the usual condition of care. Evaluation of the intervention on the existential and global QoL of patients was performed using the existential well-being subscale and the global scale of the McGill Quality of Life (MQoL) Questionnaire.
resultsAll participants agreed that their participation in the program helped them deal with their illness and their personal life. Some 88.9% of participants agreed that this program should be proposed for all cancer patients, and 94.5% agreed that this intervention helped them to reflect on the meaning of their life. At post-intervention, both existential and psychological QoL improved in the group intervention versus usual care (p = 0.086 and 0.077, respectively). At the three-month follow-up, global and psychological QoL improved in the individual intervention versus usual care (p = 0.056 and 0.047, respectively). SIGNIFICANCE OF
resultsThis pilot study confirms the relevance of the intervention and the feasibility of the recruitment and randomization processes. The data strongly suggest a potential efficacy of the intervention for existential and global quality of life, which will have to be confirmed in a larger study.
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