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Acceptance and commitment therapy processes and their association with distress in cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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ACT to Reduce Morbidity and Mortality in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant (HCT) Patients (ACTivate)
The Efficacy of Exergames-acceptance and Commitment Therapy Program for Treatment of Depression and Other Psychological Complications in Breast Cancer: Comparison With Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Alone and Treatment-as-usual in a Randomized Controlled Trial
Who cites it
16 citing papers in PubMed.
- Effects of acceptance and commitment therapy on fear of progression in young and middle-aged patients with breast cancer receiving particle therapy: a randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in public health · 2026Trial
- Anxiety, depression, quality of life and the mediating role of psychological flexibility: A study on Spanish cancer patients.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Beta Testing an mHealth Symptom Management Intervention for People With Advanced Cancer: Single-Cohort Feasibility and Acceptability Study.JMIR cancer · 2026Article
- The effect of acceptance and commitment therapy on communication avoidance, emotional well-being, and hyperarousal in Iranian caregivers of women with advanced breast cancer.Discover mental health · 2026Article
- Development of a Novel Psychosocial Intervention to Improve Symptom Management for Adolescents and Young Adults with Advanced or Recurrent Cancer.Journal of adolescent and young adult oncology · 2026Article
- Psychological flexibility and its correlations with and predictive utility for emotional wellbeing, fatigue, insomnia, and post-traumatic growth in cancer patients undergoing treatment.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The impact of negative cognitive emotion regulation strategies on impulsive behaviors in middle school students: the mediating effect of cognitive fusion and experiential avoidance.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Identifying the heterogeneity of self-advocacy in Chinese patients with breast cancer using latent profile analysis and symptom networks.Asia-Pacific journal of oncology nursing · 2025Article
- Acceptance in Patients With Cancer: A Scoping Review.Cancer reports (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2025Article
- The prenatal anxiety trajectory and its correlation with stress and psychological flexibility: a longitudinal study.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- The role of psychological flexibility in relation to health outcomes in people in remission from cancer.British journal of health psychology · 2025Article
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- Efficacy of acceptance and commitment therapy on psychological rehabilitation in cancer patients treated with proton and heavy ion therapy: a non-randomized controlled trial.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025Article
- Recovery-based suicide prevention.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
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- A digital, coach-assisted intervention to address the psychosocial needs of young adult cancer survivors: Randomized controlled trial protocol and intervention adaptation process.Contemporary clinical trials · 2024Article
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Abstract
Around 42% of individuals with cancer experience distress. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) can reduce distress, but effects are small, and mechanisms unclear. This review aimed to identify associations between ACT processes and distress in cancer. Search terms included cancer, ACT processes, self-compassion, and distress. Six online databases and grey literature were searched until March 2022. Of 6555 papers screened, 108 studies were included with 17,195 participants. Five meta-analyses of 77 studies were conducted. Random effects meta-analyses of correlations revealed higher scores on flexible processes (acceptance, present moment awareness, self-compassion) were associated with lower distress (
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