TABLE 1.

Session content of the Integrative Body-Mind-Spirit (I-BMS) group intervention for women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS).

Theme	Purpose	Content
Session I: Listen to your heart: mind-body connection	• Recognize the uncertainty and ambiguity of PCOS • Prepare for body mind adjustment	• Warm-up exercise • Introduction on I-BMS method and holistic health • PCOS emotional problems sharing • Techniques to manage emotions • Body scan • Breathing exercise • Therapeutic massage
Session II: Here and Now: I am beautiful	• Identify objectified experiences • Cultivate healthy values on beauty	• Meditation: feel the nature • Objectified Experience sharing • Introducing objectification • Game: find your own beauty • Self-help acupressure massage
Session III: Self-care and stress management	• Understand the impact of stress • Learn to relieve stress: physical and mental	• Meditation: love and forgiveness • Introducing the nature of stress and its effect on body and mind • Stress and infertility • Experience sharing • Talk and share on ways to reduce stress • Hand massage
Session IV: Self-acceptance and self-compassion	• Learn I-BMS self-acceptance • Accept illness uncertainty	• Meditation: self-acceptance and gratitude • Psycho-education about self-acceptance • Game: self-appreciation and self-compassion • Self-care introduction: developing a healthy lifestyle • Therapeutic massage
Session V: Transformation through loss	• Develop a positive concept of gain and loss • Learn I-BMS skills to transcend losses into deeper meaning in life	• Meditation: regain strength • Introducing psychosomatic mechanism • Sharing on coping process of infertility • Game: Gain and loss transformation • Breathing exercise • Body swinging
Session VI: Empowerment: Building strength and resilience	• Establish a new way of life • Turn losses into resilience • Form a long-term support group to help each other and to promote awareness on PCOS	• Meditation: relaxation and renewal • Re-examining priorities in life • Appreciation of self, others, and life • Future plan sharing • Body exercise skills collection Keep in contact and exercise