title: Partnership in Psycho-Social Group Intervention for Cancer Patients: Factors to Creating Group Dynamics.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The purpose of this study was to conduct a psycho-social group intervention consisting of 3 parts, educate patients on methods to cope with stress and solve problems, hold group discussions and practice progressive muscle relaxation (PMR) for cancer patients, and investigate the way that group dynamics work in psycho-social group interventions in Japan.
  
  
  METHODS
  Three facilitators and 2 sub-facilitators who conducted the group intervention for breast cancer patients were qualitatively and inductively analyzed using a phenomenological approach.
  
  
  RESULTS
  As a result, "hard effort," "harmony of the whole group" and "collaboration between therapists" were extracted as the partnership functions of participants that work on the creation of group dynamics in psycho-social group interventions. There was a structure in which "harmony of the whole group" and "collaboration between therapists" coexisted based on the basic attitude of "hard effort."
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It was considered that these 3 intervention forms are involved in group dynamics in which participants can easily hold discussions, and are techniques necessary for group intervention contributing to changes in the psychological distress and the coping of participants.
authors.affiliation: Department of Adult and Elderly Nursing, School of Health Science, Tottori University Faculty of Medicine, Yonago 683-8503, Japan.
authors.forename: Masami
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chujo
authors.affiliation: †Department of Psychosocial Rehabilitation, Faculty of Health and Science, Graduate School, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima 734-8553, Japan.
authors.forename: Hitoshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Okamura
keywords: facilitator; group dynamics; group intervention; nurse; partnership