A cognitive-existential intervention to improve existential and global quality of life in cancer patients: A pilot study.

Objective: We developed a specific cognitive-existential intervention to improve existential distress in nonmetastatic cancer patients. The present study reports the feasibility of implementing and evaluating this intervention, which involved 12 weekly sessions in both individual and group formats, and explores the efficacy of the intervention on existential and global quality of life (QoL) measures.

Method: Some 33 nonmetastatic cancer patients were randomized between the group intervention, the individual intervention, and the usual condition of care.