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Participants received multimodal cognitive-behavioral group therapy in six 1- to 1.5-hour sessions, given weekly x5 and then repeated in four weeks. Therapy included stimulus control therapy, relaxation training, sleep consolidation strategies, and strategies to reduce cognitive-emotional arousal.
Outpatient clinics at Major Cancer Center in Central Canada and the community serving the Cancer Center, Midwestern Canada
This was a repeated measure, single-group design with no control group.
Fatigue significantly decreased at week eight in comparison to baseline. Values of sleep, mood, and functioning improved from baseline, to four weeks, and to eight weeks after the intervention. Improved sleep measures included