Data di Pubblicazione:
2023
Citazione:
Social Support in a Cancer Patient-Informal Caregiver Dyad: A Scoping Review / M. Pasek, A. Goździalska, M. Jochymek, R. Caruso. - In: CANCERS. - ISSN 2072-6694. - 15:6(2023), pp. 1754.1-1754.19. [10.3390/cancers15061754]
Abstract:
Social support that includes promoting healthy behaviours throughout the oncology
pathway, from diagnosis to treatment to survival, can leverage existing support networks and improve
the health of patients and family members in supportive roles. This scoping review aimed to identify
and summarise the impact of social support on the patient-informal caregiver relationship during
cancer treatment. Inclusion criteria were related to a high focus on dyadic cancer patient-informal
caregiver relationships, considering a population of adult cancer patients in active hospitalisation on
an oncology ward, and published between 2012 and 2022 to get a portrait of the literature that might
influence the current practice. A systematic search using the “Population, Concept, and Context”
framework was performed in PubMed, Web of Science, SCOPUS, EBSCO Medline, and CINAHL:
13 articles from the 16,425 pre-qualified articles published between 2012 and 2022. The narrative
synthesis of the included studies highlighted that social support, encompassing its different forms
within the context of dyads, is frequently associated with an enhanced quality of life, hope, and
resilience of both patients and informal caregivers. However, it is important to recognize that the
support interventions provided to patients, particularly caregivers, were frequently not thoroughly
evaluated or explained, and the sample sizes of the included studies were often limited. Therefore,
this review clarified the social and clinical potential of social support for the patient-informal caregiver
relationship, paving the way for future robust studies that require to be powered and designed on
specific outcomes to allow informing the practice on specific recommendations.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
social supports; dyads; cancer; scoping review; systematic review
Elenco autori:
M. Pasek, A. Goździalska, M. Jochymek, R. Caruso
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