Interventions to enhance self-efficacy in cancer patients: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Self-efficacy expectations are associated with improvements in problematic outcomes widely considered clinically significant (ie, emotional distress, fatigue, and pain), related to positive health behaviors, and as a type of personal agency, inherently valuable. Self-efficacy expectancies, estimates of confidence to execute behaviors, are important in that changes in self-efficacy expectations are positively related to future behaviors that promote health and well-being. The current meta-analysis investigated the impact of psychological interventions on self-efficacy expectations for a variety of health behaviors among cancer patients.

Methods

Ovid Medline, PsycINFO, CINAHL, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, and Web of Science were searched with specific search terms for i

SUBMITTER: Merluzzi TV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6731146 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature