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Trial reportPalliative & supportive care2019

Levels of emotional awareness during psychotherapy among gynecologic cancer patients.

Shannon Myers Virtue, Sharon L Manne, Kevin Criswell, David Kissane, Carolyn J Heckman, David Rotter

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Palliative & supportive care, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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6 authors.

Shannon Myers VirtueHelen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute,Newark,DE.
Sharon L ManneRutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey,New Brunswick,NJ.
Kevin CriswellRutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey,New Brunswick,NJ.ORCID 0000-0002-5866-0998
David KissaneMonash University,Clayton,VIC,Australia.
Carolyn J HeckmanFox Chase Cancer Center,Philadelphia,PA.
David RotterRutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey,New Brunswick,NJ.

Funding

WORD PROCESSING CENTER--COREP30CA006927 · NCI · RESEARCH INST OF FOX CHASE CAN CTR · PI Margaret von Mehren · 1985 to 2026
$138.8M
PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERVENTION FOR OVARIAN CANCER PATIENTSR01CA085566 · NCI · UNIV OF MED/DENT NJ-R W JOHNSON MED SCH · PI MANNE, SHARON L · 2000 to 2014
$4.8M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA006927NCI NIH HHS R01 CA085566
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveEmotional awareness is the ability to recognize, describe, and attend to emotions. A known correlate is emotional processing, the ability to orient to and use inner experiences for information. The goal was to examine emotional awareness during therapy among gynecologic cancer patients, identify baseline predictors, and explore the relationship between in-session emotional awareness and processing.

methodPsychotherapy and baseline data from a randomized controlled trial comparing a supportive counseling (SC) intervention and a cognitive-behavioral coping and communication (CCI) intervention were used. The sample was patients with gynecologic cancers randomized to either therapy (N = 246). Emotion episode transcripts from the first, middle, and sixth of seven in-person sessions were coded for emotional awareness using the Program for Open-Ended Scoring and emotional processing using the Experiencing Scale. Descriptive and regression analyses were conducted.ResultParticipants had moderate in-session emotional awareness. SC participants exhibited higher levels of awareness in the first (p < 0.001) and sixth (p = 0.002) sessions than CCI participants. Awareness was positively correlated with emotional processing in the first and sixth SC sessions (r = 0.25 and 0.24, respectively) and all CCI sessions (r = 0.29-0.31). Baseline negative emotion expression was associated with awareness during the sixth SC session. Baseline cancer-specific distress was associated with awareness during the sixth CCI session.Significance of resultsSC may facilitate emotional awareness. Greater emotional awareness in therapy may facilitate emotional processing, which is an important component of most psychotherapies. Patients who are psychologically distressed may exhibit more awareness than others. Similarly, greater emotional awareness may signal greater patient distress.

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AwarenessEmotional IntelligenceAdultCounselingFemaleGenital Neoplasms, FemaleHumansMiddle AgedPsychometricsPsychotherapySurveys and QuestionnairesTreatment OutcomeCanceremotional awarenessgynecologicaloncologypsychotherapy

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PMID29880065
PMCPMC8370270

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