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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine anger control education based on REBT(Rational Emotion Behavior Therapy) for breast cancer patients and to verity the program’s effectiveness on state-trait anger expression, Depression, and the way of coping. The subjects of this study composed of fifty breast cancer patients(23 for the experimental group and 27 control group) who were participated breast cancer clinic outpatients from P hospital in Busan, South Korea. Data were collected at baseline after 8 weeks and 12weeks. Effects of anger control education, there were significant interactions with group(between experimental group and control group) by time(baseline, after 8weeks & 12weeks) in anger-suppression (F=27.60, p<.001), anger-expression(F=4.68, p<.001), anger-control(F=17.89, p<.001) depression(F=29.57, p<.001), and the way of coping(F=5.73, p=.004). Anger control education was nursing intervention as a method of improving anger control, depression, and the way of coping for breast cancer patients. It implicates breast cancer patients need effective anger control and health promoting behaviors.