Research Paper on:
Depression and Anxiety in Women With Breast Cancer and Their Partners

Unformatted Sample Text from the Research Paper:
With Breast Cancer and Their Partners" published in the January/February edition of "The Nursing Research Journal" authors Terry Badger, Chris Segan, Sylvia M. Darros, Paula Meek and Ana Marie Lopez  explore whether psychosocial interventions are important in the improvement of the psychological quality of life for women and their partners who are suffering with breast cancer. The purpose of  this research is to test the hypothesis that "telephone-delivered psychosocial interventions decreases depression and anxiety" in this study group. The researchers evaluate the effects of telephone-delivered psychosocial intervention to  thirty-two women and their partners. These effects were compared to those of two other equally-sized study groups, one of which participated in self-managed exercise and the other of which  participated in an attention control program. The research methods utilized in this study include an extensive literature review of the effects of depression  and anxiety among women that are being treated for breast cancer and those that have survived that cancer. The authors of this study report that these women and their  families often suffer "substantial psychological distress" and that that distress can "influence cancer recovery significantly" as the cancer patients ability to cope with their illness decreases and their partners ability  to help them with the process is impeded as well. Decreased communication between the patient and their partner is a common response to this distress.  The research in this paper specifically evaluates the telephone interpersonal counseling techniques, techniques based on interpersonal counseling techniques that focus on education about the disease  and that are designed to strengthen interpersonal communication so that the patient and their partner can work through the problems more effectively.