Mindfulness and Spirituality As Alleviating Factors for Dyadic Cancer-Related Distress during COVID-19: An Actor-Partner Interdependence Modeling Approach

This study examines the role of mindfulness and spirituality on cancer-related distress in couples with cancer through a bidirectional framework during COVID-19. Results suggest that while spirituality is of importance for patients’ own alleviation of distress, patients’ mindfulness is important in both the patients’ and the caregivers’ cancer-related distress.