the effect of stress management model in quality of life in breast cancer women

Background: breast cancer associates with severs severe distress and stress. since because of that, the stress management program can train necessary skills to cope with stress; therefore, the current study investigates the effectiveness of stress management on enhancement of quality of life. objectives: the aim of the current study is to examine the effectiveness of stress management model in quality of life for breast cancer patients. patients and methods: this research is a quasi-experimental study with pre and post-tests. the 21 subjects were selected from cancer institute of imam khomeini in tehran in 2014. the participants were allocated to two matched groups based on their pre-test scores. they were assigned randomly to the control and experimental groups. stress management was conducted with the experimental group during 10 sessions. then the questionnaire was administered at post-test. statistical analysis was conducted by using the independent t-test and analysis of variance. the research instrument was the core quality of life questionnaire qlq-c30. results: the results of the independent t-test showed that there is a significant difference between the pretest and post-test scores in the experimental group (p < 0.05). also, there is no significant difference between means of quality of life subscales and socio demographic of the patients such as; age, education and disease stage (p < 0.05). conclusions: the results indicate that stress management can change the irrational and distortion thoughts. so, it enhances the quality of life in breast cancer patients.