Effectiveness of internet-based support interventions on patients with breast cancer: a systematic review and narrative synthesis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To identify the elements of internet-based support interventions and assess their effectiveness at reducing psychological distress, anxiety and/or depression, physical variables (prevalence, severity and distress from physical symptoms) and improving quality of life, social support and self-efficacy among patients with breast cancer.

Design

Systematic review and narrative synthesis.

Data sources

Web of Science, Cochrane Library, PubMed, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, CINAHL, CNKI, Wanfang and VIP from over the past 5 years of each database to June 2021.

Eligibility criteria for study selection

Included were randomised controlled trials (RCTs) or quasi-experimental (QE) studies focusing on internet-based support interventions in patients with breast cancer.

Dat

SUBMITTER: Huang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9157353 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature