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HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 22, Issue 5, Pages 443-452Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0278-6133.22.5.443
Keywords
prostate cancer; quality of life; group intervention; education; social support
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- NCI NIH HHS [R01 CA068354-05, CA68354] Funding Source: Medline
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Men who were recently treated for prostate cancer (N = 250) were randomly assigned to a control group, a group education intervention (GE), or a group education-plus-discussion intervention (GED). Both GE and GED increased prostate cancer knowledge. In the year postintervention, men in the GED condition were less bothered by sexual problems than men in the control condition, and they were more likely to remain steadily employed (93.0%) than men in the GE (75.6%) or control (72.5%) conditions. Among noncollege graduates, GED and GE resulted in better physical functioning than the control condition, and GED resulted in more positive health behaviors than the control or GE condition. Among college graduates, controls were comparable with the GE and GED groups in physical functioning and positive health behaviors.
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