ArticleBMC psychiatry2021
Retrospective and prospective measures of post-traumatic growth reflect different processes: longitudinal evidence of greater decline than growth following a hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation.
Article in BMC psychiatry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06118853 (Impact of Yoga and Gentle Massage Practices on Symptom Management in Patients Undergoing Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation at the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein), which is not on this map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Impact of Yoga and Gentle Massage Practices on Symptom Management in Patients Undergoing Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation at the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein
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- The relationship between fear of cancer recurrence and posttraumatic growth: a meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Pooled it
- Post-Traumatic Growth in Adult Cancer Survivors: A Scoping Review of Psychological Factors, Predictors, and Interventions.International journal of psychology : Journal international de psychologie · 2025Article
- Predictors of post traumatic growth in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation survivors: a cross-sectional survey.BMC psychology · 2023Article
- Posttraumatic growth inventory: challenges with its validation among French cancer patients.BMC medical research methodology · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundThis prospective longitudinal study examined and compared two measures (prospective and retrospective ones) of post-traumatic growth (PTG) following Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation (HSCT) and their respective relationships with mental health and psychological disposition. We also tested the hypothesis that unwillingness to be in contact with distressing thoughts and feelings-i.e. experiential avoidance-would moderate the relationship between Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and growth.
methodsThis study was carried out with 187 patients. Patients completed the Post-Traumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI) 5 months after HSCT and scales tapping into the five domains of PTGI during hospitalisation and 5 months after HSCT. Mental health and psychological disposition were also assessed prior to hospitalisation. A PTSD scale was administered at the five-month follow-up.
resultsProspective and retrospective measures of PTG were weakly correlated. Bayesian pre/post-HSCT comparisons in the prospective measure of PTG revealed substantial to very strong decline in four of the five dimensions assessed. Overall, RCI indicated a reliable increase for 5.6% of patients and a reliable decrease for 40.8% of patients. Confirming that retrospective and prospective measures of PTG reflect different processes, they were not related to the same mental health and psychological disposition variables. Moreover, the hypothesis that acquiring positive outcomes from a potentially traumatic experience, such as HSCT, requires direct confrontation with the source of distress was supported in the case of the retrospective measure of growth but not in the case of the prospective measure growth.
conclusionsRetrospective measures such as the PTGI do not appear to assess actual pre- to post-HSCT change. HSCT seems more linked to psychological decline than to growth.
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