Effectiveness of Mindfulness Training on Self-efficacy of Patients Infected by Breast Cancer

Cancer involves people's life, job and social relationships and if they are not solved, they would complicate the patient's status. Cognition therapy based on mindfulness is a method that can be effective in patient's quality of life. The objective of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of mindfulness on self- efficacy of patients with breast cancer. 30 women with breast cancer hospitalized in Tehran hospital were selected through convenient method and assigned randomly in two groups of experiment and control. Groups were tested with respect to the self-efficacy level. The experiment group underwent 8 sessions of training, each session lasted 1 hour. The results based on ANCOVA analysis indicated that mindfulness has been effective on increasing self-efficacy of patients.