Social media-based interventions for patients with cancer: a meta-analysis and meta-regression of randomised controlled trials.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

This review aimed to (1) evaluate the effectiveness of social media-based interventions for improving the quality of life, anxiety and depressive symptoms of patients with cancer at post-intervention and follow-up; (2) identify the essential features of social media-based interventions and (3) explore the covariates of the treatment effect.

Methods

All types of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) were included. Ten electronic databases, clinical trial registries and grey literature sources were searched from inception to 15 December 2021. Stata software was used to perform meta-analysis, subgroup analyses and meta-regression analyses. Individual quality assessment and certainty of evidence were assessed using Cochrane risk of bias tool version 1 and Grading of Recomm

SUBMITTER: Siew LED 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9372974 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature