Abstract:

Cancer is becoming a more serious and common disease and a health problem. The problems caused by this disease not only affect the patient's physical health, but also lead to many psychosocial problems and decreases the quality of life. Cancer patients are exposed to excessive stress due to the difficulties created by both the cancer itself and the various treatments applied for cancer, and may experience many psychological problems, including depression and anxiety, and their quality of life can be badly affected. Oncological social services specialists are committed to addressing and relieving these problems, developing patients’ ability to deal with and improving their quality of life. Newly counted, but soon proven its effectiveness, conscious-based practices have now started to be used as oncological social service interventions. Conscious Awareness Based Stress Reduction (BFTSA) has been the subject of many research in terms of its contribution to cancer patients. The aim of our study is to discuss the application and effectiveness of the BFTSA program in the field of oncological social services. Thus, the latest research has been evaluated by the effectiveness of BFTSA. According to the results of this study, research has that BFTSA generally relieves cancer patients’ psychological problems such as stress, anxiety and depression, improves their ability to cope with and improves their quality of life. Therefore, it has been found that BFTSA is useful for use in oncological social services because it is a short but also effective social service intervention and it is recommended to be regularly used in this area. In Turkey, there is a lack of research on this issue and it is recommended that research is done in this area.

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