Efficacy of Supportive Psychotherapy Group Training on Life Expectancy in Gastrointestinal Cancer Patients (Male) Case study: Delfan City, Iran

This study was performed to investigate the efficacy supportive psychotherapy group training on life expectancy in gastrointestinal cancer patients in Delfan city, Iran. For this purpose, the statistic population were included all patients with gastrointestinal cancer who were referred to treatment and health centers in Delfan city. The present experiment was randomly conducted on 40 individual of them. Then were put into two experimental and control group (20 patients in the experimental group and 20 patients in the control group). From participants were asked to complete the life expectancy questionnaire. Then, the group supportive psychotherapy method was trained to experimental group through one session per week (totally, 9 sessions with 90 minutes). After the end of sessions, the post-test was conducted on experimental and control groups. One way covariance was used to analyze the data. These results defined that the group supportive psychotherapy method can be used to increasing the life expectancy of patients with gastrointestinal cancer in experimental group in comparison with the control group. It can be concluded that the group of supportive psychotherapy can be used to increasing the life expectancy of male patients with gastrointestinal cancer.