Helping Women with Breast Cancer to Cope with Hair Loss: An e-SIT Protocol

Engaging Elderly Breast Cancer Patients: The Potential of eHealth Interventions

“…Treatment participants showed a trend toward greater improvement in emotional well-being compared to control participants. With a similar approach, recently, Villani et al (2016) developed a 2 weeks eHealth protocol based on Meichenbaum's Stress Inoculation Training (SIT) (Meichenbaum, 1985) intervention for helping elderly women undergoing chemotherapy to cope with impeding hair loss and other treatment side effects. The protocol was composed by three phases coherent with the general SIT objectives (Serino et al, 2014): (1) increasing knowledge about the stress process, (2) developing self-regulation skills and (3) helping individual to use the acquired coping skills in real contexts.…”