Caring-Healing Modalities for Emotional Distress and Resilience in Persons with Cancer: A Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT: Background/Objectives: Caring-healing modalities (CHMs), i.e., non-pharmacological, nurse-led interventions rooted in caring science, have shown promise in reducing emotional distress, while enhancing resilience. CHMs are heterogeneous, making it challenging to determine how they are formulated to build resilience, mitigate emotional distress, and explore their mechanisms of action. This scoping review mapped the literature on CHMs, including their components, targeted outcomes, and measures. Methods: This review was conceptually driven by Watson's Theory of Human Caring, followed the JBI methodology, and reported according to the PRISMA-ScR. Experimental studies, systematic reviews, opinion pieces, and the gray literature on CHMs for emotional distress and resilience deliver

SUBMITTER: Kociolek J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12472820 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature