Improving Cognitive Impairment in Cancer Patients With an Online Course in Mindfulness‐Based Stress Reduction—A Randomized Controlled Trial
Anna Baumeister, Lea Schuurmans, Lisa Borgmann, Alena Krause, Luca Schmidt, Steffen Moritz, Matthias Rostock · 2026
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Baumeister and colleagues test an online mindfulness course for cancer patients with thinking problems in this 2026 randomized trial. Cognitive impairment after cancer treatment can linger for years and disrupt daily life. The team assigned 170 patients to an eight-week online course or to a waiting-list control group. The course taught mindfulness-based stress reduction and was led by a therapist. All patients were between three months and five years past treatment.
Patients rated their own thinking ability as clearly better after the course than controls did, with moderate effect sizes across subscales. Quality of life improved, and fatigue and depressive symptoms both fell. An objective verbal memory test also improved modestly, while attention scores were among the secondary measures tracked. Benefits were still present at a follow-up three months later, after the control group had also taken the course.
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| CREATOR | Anna Baumeister, Lea Schuurmans, Lisa Borgmann, Alena Krause, Luca Schmidt, Steffen Moritz, Matthias Rostock |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 35 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |