EFFECTIVENESS OF PSYCHO-ONCOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS IN INCREASING THE SELF-EFFICACY OF PATIENTS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF LITERATURE AND META-ANALYSIS
Keywords:
patient, cancer, self-efficacy, meta-analysisAbstract
The purpose of this meta-analysis is to evaluate the
effectiveness of interventions aimed at improving the selfefficacy
of cancer patients. Peer-reviewed articles included in
the analysis were published between 2000 and 2018, and were
selected from online databases. The keywords used for the
search were self-efficacy, cancer, neoplasm, tumour,
malignant, treatment, intervention, therapy. We selected the
studies that meet the following conditions: (a) they had an
experimental design; (b) the participants were patients
diagnosed with cancer; (c) they aimed the testing of
interventions focused on increasing patients’ adaptation to
disease; (d) they have been published in English and subjected
to a peer-review process. Interventions to improve the selfefficacy
of cancer patients have a statistically significant
effect (g = .43, Z = 3.304, p = .001). The result shows the
effectiveness of the interventions, but the heterogeneity of the
data calls for caution in their consideration.
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