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Does an Online Self-Compassion Expressive Writing Exercise Offer Benefit to Stoma Patients?

其他書名	A Randomised Controlled Trial
出版	University of Auckland, 2019
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=SVltzgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Individuals living with a stoma can experience a range of unique physical complications and psychological challenges such as psychological distress, negative body image, and overall reduced quality of life (QOL). However, existing interventions are both limited and insufficient at improving psychological well-being. The current study explores the potential benefit of a self-compassion expressive writing intervention to people with a stoma and the moderating influence of dispositional disgust propensity (i.e., frequency of disgust) and disgust sensitivity (i.e., level of disgust when it occurs) on well-being. In this experimental study, 175 individuals with a stoma living in New Zealand or Australia completed an online questionnaire assessing demographics, medical characteristics, and psychological measures (disgust propensity and sensitivity, psychological distress, body image, self-compassion, and stoma QOL). Participants were randomly allocated to either the intervention (n = 89) or control (n = 86) condition. One-week and one-month follow-up questionnaires were sent to participants who completed their writing exercise (n = 140). Older age, longer stoma duration, and stoma permanency correlated with reduced body image distress and stoma-QOL (all p