Promoção da saúde na doença oncológica: Intervenção de redução do stress baseada no mindfulness

Abstract

The main goal of this revision article is (1) to convey a general vision and discussion about mindfulness meditations and its clinical practical value in oncology and (2) to report, in detail – assessing critically the existing research data, as well as the emergent one about mindfulness meditation – an intervention to people with cancer disease. In addition, it wishes to bring up the hypothesis of a program of health promotion and stress reduction, based on mindfulness, exploring its effects in terms of biologic and psychosocial variables. Foreign studies refer significant levels of change on psychosocial items of assessment, in the different moments of assessment. In that way, the intervention has relative theoretical support, even though this theoretical basis needs empirical refinement. It’s hoped that the eventual application of the intervention here described will allow to work the factors taken as beneficial to promote a better adjustment to the oncologic disease, rising proactively the actions of the individual has an informed intervenient of its process of progressive adaptation to the disease.