Some cancer patients point decrease pain syndrome and improve the overall condition after they write down on paper all their experiences and emotions.
Such records are written to the method in the so-called “narrative” medicine. The method is an additional opportunity to improve contact between the patient and doctor. Even one record of the patients about their painful experiences helps them above all understand themselves and their needs better believes Dr. Soledad Cepeda of the Medical Center in Boston (Tufts-New England Medical Center), USA.
The study was attended by 234 patients diagnosed with cancer. Participants divided into 3 groups. The first group suggested writing to express all their complaints and experiences, the second group gave a standard questionnaire filled with questions about pain symptoms and the degree of expression. The latter group received only the standard amount of treatment. Every week, all participants filled out questionnaires with questions about pain and general well-being.
It turned out that the patients were regularly recording their emotions and feelings, much less in comparison with the rest experiencing feel painful symptoms and feel better than other study participants. To advise Cancer severely ill patients to record their suffering on paper to reduce pain and improve the well-still needed several studies aimed at studying the problem. Maybe hopelessly ill patients will be severely physically and psychologically difficult to write about “painful problem”.
Aug 05
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