Table 1 Intervention components and goals of the side-effect prevention training
Intervention components | Goals |
|---|---|
Session 1 | |
- Psychoeducation about AET | - Knowledge about AET and nocebo effect |
- Guided imagination and visualization of positive treatment aspects | - Strengthen control and benefit expectations |
- Psychoeducation about nocebo and non-specific side effects | - Integration of positive aspects of AET into daily routines |
Homework | |
- Practice relaxation and imagination (anchored by CD) | |
- Further creative work with imagination, e.g., painting | |
Session 2 | |
- Develop individual problem-solving scheme for the three most important side effects | - Optimize coping expectations |
- Create an action plan for behavioral and cognitive strategies | - Reduce specific concerns |
Homework | |
- Complete and modify the personal problem-solving scheme | |
- Create an individual “tool box” | |
- Practice relaxation and imagination (anchored by CD) | |
Session 3 | |
- Psychoeducation about doctor-patient communication | - Optimizing coping expectations |
- Develop distraction strategies of for the time of AET intake | - Improving patient-physician communication |
- Summing up and outline treatment goals | |
Homework | |
- Practice relaxation and imagination (anchored by CD) | |
- Complete and modify the personal problem-solving scheme and the tool box | |
Telefone booster calls | |
- Compare expected and occurred side effects | - Maintain optimized expectations |
- Check practicability of the coping strategies and the “tool box” and modify if necessary |