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2003 JUL 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- It may be therapeutic for breast cancer patients to express negative emotions.
"The differences in affective status between patients who restrain their negative emotion and those who express negative emotion after being given their breast cancer diagnosis were studied using the Profile of Mood States (POMS) at two sessions: (i) at the first visit to the outpatient surgery clinic, and (ii) immediately after being given the diagnosis of breast cancer," investigators in Japan report.
"Eighty-seven patients completed the POMS and the Courtauld Emotional Control Scale (CECS) at the first visit to the outpatient surgery clinic at Shiga University of Medical Sciences Hospital. They also completed the POMS immediately after being given the diagnosis of breast cancer," wrote Y. Iwamitsu and colleagues, Shiga University of Medical Sciences, Department of Psychiatry.
"Breast cancer patients who restrain their negative emotion (n = 8) were highly anxious, depressed and confused after being given the diagnosis compared to breast cancer patients who express negative emotion (n = 8)," the researchers wrote.
"Emotional distress in benign breast tumor patients was reduced after being given ...
Source: HighBeam Research, It may be therapeutic for breast cancer patients to express negative...