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- Title
Psychological Interventions For Paediatric Cancer Patients And Their Families: A Comparative Review And Emerging Needs In India.
- Authors
Kaushal, Tanuja; Chadda, R. K.; Bakhshi, Sameer
- Abstract
Evidence based research on psycho-oncology in last three decades lays emphasis upon the critical role of psychological services for better illness adjustment, improved quality of life, reduced distress and cognitive problems among the rapidly increasing paediatric cancer population. This review summarized literature on evidence based psychological intervention in the area of childhood cancer in last decades and addressed the wide gap that existed between intervention studies worldwide and India, thus highlighted the need for research and appropriate services. Search was done through electronic data bases such as MedLine, PubMed, PsycINFO, and Google Scholar. Key search terms were families, parents, siblings of children with cancer, paediatric cancer, psycho-oncology, children with cancer + psychological intervention, or multimodal treatment, psychotherapy, cognitive training, behavioural, social skills+ feasibility study, pilot, randomized controlled trial, case study, systematic reviews. 46 full papers published between 1996 to 2016 were reviewed. Data support the use cognitive behaviour therapy, psychosocial care, spiritual intervention, music and art therapy and family therapy. The benefits have been mostly seen in terms of significant reduction in stress, anxiety, symptoms of PTSD & depression. Generally, intervention settings were either hospital or home and were designed to promote psychological wellbeing. Psychological interventions were more in customised formats in these studies. Development of culture-specific generic intervention module and using the same in randomized control studies with larger effect size are needed in India for larger coverage of patients.
- Subjects
INDIA; PSYCHO-oncology; FAMILY psychotherapy; MUSIC therapy; COGNITIVE therapy; GOOGLE Scholar (Web resource); PATIENT-family relations; ART therapy
- Publication
Journal of Cancer Research & Therapeutics, 2017, Vol 13, pS138
- ISSN
0973-1482
- Publication type
Article