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Trial reportSupportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer2024

The effectiveness of reminiscence therapy on the symptom management, the life satisfaction, and the self-transcendence in palliative care patients: a randomized controlled trial.

Canan Bozkurt, Yasemin Yildirim

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Trial report in Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05242016 (The Effect of Structured Individiual Reminiscence on Symptom Management, Life Satisfaction and Self Transcendence of Palliative Care Patients), which is not on this map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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The Effect of Structured Individiual Reminiscence on Symptom Management, Life Satisfaction and Self Transcendence of Palliative Care Patients

TypeinterventionalSponsorBandırma Onyedi Eylül UniversityRan2021 to 2023Enrolled48ConditionsPalliative CareArmsstructured individual reminiscence, unstructured social interview
3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. The effectiveness of reminiscence therapy on anxiety, depression, and quality of life in adult cancer patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Canan BozkurtNursing Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, Bandirma Onyedi Eylul University İhsaniye District, Kurtuluş Street, Nu:98, Bandirma, Balıkesir, 10200, Turkey. cbozkurt@bandirma.edu.tr.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8034-4062
Yasemin YildirimDepartment of Internal Medicine Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8970-3743

Funding

Ege University Scientific Research Projects Coordination Unit TDK-2021-23257
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeTo examine the effect of individualized reminiscence therapy on the management of global distress and physical and psychological symptoms, life satisfaction and self-transcendence levels of palliative care patients.

methodsIn a single-center palliative care service in western Turkey, 48 patients without cognitive impairment and able to communicate were included in the study. However, 44 patients completed the study. Patients who met the inclusion criteria were randomly assigned to the reminiscence therapy (intervention), unstructured social interviewing (placebo), and control groups (16 people for each group) before the start of the study. The sessions for the interview and placebo groups were conducted face-to-face in the patient's room (while the patient was sitting or lying down) for 15 days (2 weeks), every other day, for a total of eight sessions (each session was approximately 30 min). Data collection instruments-the Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale, the Contentment with Life Assessment Scale, and the Self-Transcendence Scale-were collected at baseline (first day) and after the intervention (day 15

resultsThere was no decrease in physical and total symptom burden (p > 0.05). There were significant reductions in general distress and psychological symptoms in the intervention and placebo groups within the group (p < 0.05), but there were no significant differences between the control group and all groups when compared (p > 0.05). Group × time interactions were statistically significant for life satisfaction and self-transcendence (p < 0.001), and there was a substantial increase in the intervention group compared to the other groups.

conclusionIt may be recommended that reminiscence therapy intervention be included in routine nursing care as it may contribute positively to the psychological recovery of palliative care patients approaching the end of life.

trial registrationClinicalTrails.gov (Registration number: NCT05242016). Prospectively registered on 1 February 2022.

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Palliative CarePersonal SatisfactionAdultAgedFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedNeoplasmsPsychotherapyTurkeyLife satisfactionPalliative careReminiscence therapySelf-transcendenceSymptom assessment

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PMID38874763
PMCPMC11178595

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