| Literature DB >> 25922217 |
Diana Richter1, Michael Koehler2, Michael Friedrich3, Inken Hilgendorf4, Anja Mehnert3, Gregor Weißflog3.
Abstract
Adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer patients experience unique psychosocial needs and developmental challenges. A cancer diagnosis can stress this development and disrupt AYAs in their normal life. The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to assess the impact of psychosocial interventions on mental health in AYAs. A literature research was conducted, which resulted in twelve eligible studies. The standardized mean difference between intervention and control conditions was 0.13 (95% CI: -0.16 to 0.42) for quality of life, 0.27 (95% CI: -0.22 to 0.76) for cancer-related knowledge and -0.16 (95% CI: -0.73 to 0.42) on psychological distress indicating, small and non-significant effects for interventions improving mental health. This work strengthens the need for age-appropriated interventions in psycho-oncology. Future research should develop interventions more graduated by age. Randomized intervention studies with larger samples and focusing psychosocial outcomes are needed to establish evidence-based psycho-oncological interventions for AYAs.Entities:
Keywords: AYA; Adolescents; Cancer; Interventions; Meta-analysis; Psycho-oncology; Systematic review; Young adults
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Year: 2015 PMID： 25922217 DOI： 10.1016/j.critrevonc.2015.04.003
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Crit Rev Oncol Hematol ISSN： 1040-8428 Impact factor: 6.312