A systematic review of randomized controlled trial of resilience intervention in patients with cancer / 中国心理卫生杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To systematically review the resilience intervention in patients with cancer, so as to evaluate its effectiveness. Methods: Studies published until March 2017 were searched in CNKI, VIP, WanFang Data, CBM, PubMed, Cochrane library, Wiley Online Library, Elsevier ScienceDirect, Springer Link and EBSCO. The randomized controlled trials(RCTs) about resilience intervention in patients with cancer were included. Two reviewers independently performed screening, quality assessment and data extraction Qualitative synthesis was adopted to review the resilience intervention and to evaluate its effectiveness of included studies. Results: Totally 14 studies were included for the analysis. Eight studies evaluated the effectiveness of individuation intervention, and 6 studies evaluated the effectiveness of group intervention. Thirteen studies suggested that individuation intervention and group intervention might significantly improve the resilience in cancer patients. Conclusion: The results suggest individuation or group intervention may improve the resilience in patients with cancer. Current studies on resilience intervention are limited, and the measure has been taken seems lacks of high-quality research design.