Mindfulness Training Improves Emotions Among Female Abdominal Cancer Patients

We first explored the effect of mindfulness training on depression in patients with abdominal cancer. Then the effects of cognitive emotion regulation and emotional state in the training effect were examined. Sixty patients with abdominal cancer were recruited from a hospital and divided into two groups: the mindfulness group (n=30) who received a four-week mindfulness training program, and the control group (n=30) who received only one mindfulness lecture. All participants were assessed using the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale, Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategy Questionnaire, Positive and Negative Affect Scale, and depression subscale of the Patient Health Questionnaire before and after the mindfulness training program.