PSYC 314 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Dragon Boat, Family Therapy, Intravenous Therapy
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8/15 clinical trials show survival benefit for cancer patients. 15 clinical trials looking at survival benefits of psychotherapy. If you can reduce the stress into stress, in the support group, that you"re going to survive longer. Where cancer patients were randomly assigned into support group or control group, then what you see is these are the 7 trials where you did not see the survival methods. If you can"t get a psychosocial change, then you certainly wont see a longer survival. So, psychosocial benefits are important, b/c are the mediator. Quality of life;; even if you"ll die in 10 years, having a better quality of life is. Cancer support groups: a critical review of empirical studies . The conclusion here, is that there are two things that reliably happen when you are in a support group: In fact, you end up with gastrointestinal distress, which antibiotics cause.
