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International Journal of Emergency Mental Health and Human Resilience | ISSN: 1522-4821 | Volume 20
November 26-27, 2018 | Los Angeles, USA
Psychiatry, Mental Health Nursing and Healthcare
World Summit on
Applied Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health
International Conference on
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A new integrative and preventive intervention program for patients undergoing hematopoietic stem
cell transplant: First results of a pilot study with students
Maya Corman
University Clermont Auvergne, France
Statement of the problem:
People undergoing bone marrow transplantation may have some psychological symptoms such as
depression and anxiety and physical symptoms as pains all along the process, especially during hospitalization. An investigation
about a new preventive intervention to help people to cope with this event has been led. This program is divided into three
subtasks: the first one is a new attentional bias modification task, the second one is an optimizing emotional regulation task
and the third one is a mindfulness intervention. Each task aims to facilitate the realization of the next one. The program would
be implementable at home and during hospitalization with a digital platform. Before implementation in hospital, a pilot study
was conducted in the laboratory with the first subprogram.
Methodology and Theoretical Orientation:
38 students were recruited (Mage=22.6 , SD=7.2, Nexperimental condition=19).
This attentional bias modification task consisted in detecting a positive picture amongst three others (negatives and neutrals),
moving it toward the screen’s center and savoring the associated emotion. Before and after training they realized an eye tracker
procedure in order to detect the presence of an attentional bias modification.
Findings:
The increase of positivity bias (i.e. a longer fixation time on positive stimuli) was significantly greater in the
experimental condition than in the control one. There is no significant decrease in negativity bias in the experimental condition
as a control. The effects of the task on positivity bias tend to be greater for subjects with depressive symptoms.
Conclusion and significance:
the First result of this pilot study provides interesting elements to pursue our investigations.
Next step is to test the effectiveness of the second intervention (a positive psychology one) with the completion of the first task.
Finally, we will test the whole program before proposing it to patients before and during their hospitalization.
Biography
Maya Corman (University Clermont Auvergne, LAPSCO CNRS UMR 6024) is a second-year PhD student in psychooncology under the supervision of Pr Michael
Dambrun, Pr Regis Peffault Delatour and Jacques-Olivier Bay. Her thesis work focuses on a psychological approach of people with hemopathy and undergoing
stem hematopoietic cell transplantation process. This topic has two issues: the first issue aims to identify deleterious (e.g anxiety) or protective (e.g optimism)
psychological factors involved in the different steps of bone marrow transplantation process. The second aims to put in place preventive intervention focused on
emotion and attention regulation in order to reduce psychological distress before hospitalization and provide to patients some emotional and attentional resources
to cope with this event in an adaptive way. By proposing such an intervention via a digital platform this program aims to overcome hospitalization constraints like
isolation and treatment side effects getting patients physically and psychologically vulnerable.
maya.corman@uca.frMaya Corman, Int J Emerg Ment Health, Volume 20
DOI: 10.4172/1522-4821-C5-024