Assessing the Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Stress Management (CBSM) on Pain Perception of Cancer Patients

Background: Diseaserelated cancer pain is a multidimensional phenomenon. Psychological factors that may alter pain perception in cancer patients have not been well studied. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of cognitivebehavioral stress therapy on distress in patients with cancer.Patients and Methods: In a crosssectional study of consecutive patients (3270 years), progression of their disease was at levels 1 to 3, high cycle education, and 3 months of chemotherapy, of which 40 were randomly available to the study and allocated to two groups (20 in experimental and 20 in control groups). The instrument was a McGill pain questionnaire (1997). Data were analyzed using two methods of KolmogorovSmirnov inferential statistics and multivariate analysis of covariance using SPSS Ver.17.Results: Correlation analysis showed that the experimental group had a significant reduction in perception of pain, in the posttest after the experiment compared with the control group.Conclusion: The shortterm cognitivebehavioral stress management program could reduce the perception of pain in cancer patients.