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Record W4412708047 · doi:10.1186/s40359-025-03174-1

Investigating the effects of watson-based education on depressive symptoms, hope, and pain in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy: a randomized controlled clinical trial

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Fateme Rajabi, Mostafa Bijani, Mohammad Mehdi Naghizade, Leila Nikrouz

Bibliographic record

VenueBMC Psychology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicOptimism, Hope, and Well-being
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersFasa University of Medical Sciences
KeywordsRandomized controlled trialCancer painRepeated measures designBlindingPhysical therapyDescriptive statisticsMedicineClinical psychologyPsychologyCancerInternal medicine

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: Cancer is among the most important chronic illnesses and one of the main public health concerns worldwide, which has significant physical, social, psychological, and spiritual consequences for the patient and his family. This disease reduces hope in patients and leads to depressive symptoms as well as pain. This research was designed and performed to explore the impact of teaching according to Watson's theory on depressive symptoms, hope, and pain in patients suffering from cancer undergoing chemotherapy in southern Iran. METHODS: This is a randomized controlled trial research without blinding. A total of 120 randomly selected patients were assigned to two intervention groups (n = 60) and a control group (n = 60). The intervention underwent education according to Watson's theory. Data were collected using the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Miller Hope Scale (MHS), and McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ). Data analysis was performed using SPSS version 22. To analyze the data, we used descriptive statistics. Accordingly, inferential statistics applied included chi-square, independent-samples t-test, and repeated measures (ANOVA). We also used analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) to determine whether there are any significant differences between the two groups. Significance level was considered as p < 0.05. RESULTS: Mean scores for depressive symptoms, hope, and pain intensity, measured two weeks and two months after the intervention, were significantly higher in the intervention group (p < 0.05). However, for the control group, the difference was not statistically significant. CONCLUSION: Education based on Watson's theory positively improved hope and reduced depressive symptoms as well as pain intensity in cancer patients. Nursing managers and health system policy makers can use this educational approach for people with other chronic conditions. IRANIAN REGISTRY OF CLINICAL TRIALS: IRCT registration number: IRCT20190917044802N6. REGISTRATION DATE: 31/7/2022.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Randomized trial · Consensus signal: Randomized trial
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.305
Threshold uncertainty score0.664

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.017
GPT teacher head0.381
Teacher spread0.364 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designRandomized trial
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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