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Depression and anxiety in women with breast cancer and their partners . BACKGROUND Psychosocial interventions can improve psychological quality of life ( symptoms of depression and anxiety ) of both women with breast cancer and their partners , but are not offered routinely to women and their partners . OBJECTIVE To test the hypotheses that telephone-delivered psychosocial interventions decrease depression and anxiety in women with breast cancer and their partners . METHODS The design of the study was a three-wave repeated measures with a between-subjects factor ( treatment group ) . Ninety-six women and their 96 partners were assigned randomly to participate in one of three different 6-week programs : ( a ) telephone interpersonal counseling ( TIP-C ) ; ( b ) self-managed exercise ; or ( c ) attention control ( AC ) . RESULTS The mixed-model analysis of variance for symptoms of depression among women with breast cancer revealed women 's depressive symptom scores decreased over time in all groups . For anxiety , women 's symptoms of anxiety decreased in the TIP-C and exercise groups over time , but not in the AC group . A parallel set of analyses was conducted on partners ' depression and anxiety data . Symptoms of depression and anxiety among the partners decreased substantially over the course of the investigation . Similar to the women , partners ' symptoms of anxiety decreased significantly in the TIP-C and exercise groups , but not in the AC group . DISCUSSION Findings from this study support that these telephone-delivered psychosocial interventions were effective for decreasing symptoms of depression and anxiety to improve psychological quality of life when compared to an AC group .
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Intervention_Psychological
Psychosocial interventions
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Intervention_Psychological
telephone-delivered psychosocial interventions
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Intervention_Psychological
telephone interpersonal counseling
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Intervention_Educational
( TIP-C )
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Intervention_Educational
self-managed exercise
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Intervention_Psychological
attention control
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Intervention_Physical
( AC )
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Intervention_Psychological
TIP-C
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Intervention_Psychological
TIP-C
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Outcome_Mental
Depression
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Outcome_Mental
anxiety
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Outcome_Mental
psychological quality of life ( symptoms of depression and anxiety )
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Outcome_Mental
depression
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Outcome_Mental
anxiety
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Outcome_Mental
symptoms of depression
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Outcome_Mental
women 's depressive symptom scores
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Outcome_Mental
symptoms of anxiety
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Outcome_Mental
partners ' depression and anxiety
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Outcome_Mental
depression and anxiety
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Outcome_Mental
symptoms of anxiety
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Outcome_Other
effective
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Outcome_Mental
depression
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Outcome_Mental
anxiety
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Outcome_Other
psychological quality of life
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Participant_Sex
women
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Participant_Condition
breast cancer
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Participant_Sex
partners
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Participant_Sex
women
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Participant_Condition
breast cancer
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Participant_Sex
partners
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Participant_Sex
women
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Participant_Sex
partners
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Participant_Sex
women
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Participant_Condition
breast cancer
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Participant_Sex
partners
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Participant_Sample-size
Ninety-six women
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Participant_Sample-size
96 partners
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Participant_Sex
women
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Participant_Condition
breast cancer
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Participant_Sex
women
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Participant_Sex
partners '
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Participant_Sex
partners
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Participant_Sex
women
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Participant_Sex
partners