SynthesisBehavioral medicine (Washington, D.C.)2012
Mediators of change in psychosocial interventions for cancer patients: a systematic review.
Synthesis in Behavioral medicine (Washington, D.C.), 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.
- Improved coping and self-efficacy drive improvements in mood among caregivers of patients with primary malignant brain tumors: Results from a randomized controlled trial.Neuro-oncology · 2026Trial
- Intervention-Related Changes in Coping Ability Drives Improvements in Mood and Quality of Life for Patients Taking Adjuvant Endocrine Therapy.Psycho-oncology · 2024Trial
- Does enhanced meaning after meaning-centered group psychotherapy mediate a reduction in depressive symptoms in cancer survivors? A mediation analysis in the context of a randomized controlled trial.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2024Trial
- Mindfulness-based stress reduction for breast cancer survivors (MBSR(BC)): evaluating mediators of psychological and physical outcomes in a large randomized controlled trial.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2021Trial
- Role of Patient Coping Strategies in Understanding the Effects of Early Palliative Care on Quality of Life and Mood.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2018Trial
- Mindfulness-Based Cancer Recovery (MBCR) versus Supportive Expressive Group Therapy (SET) for distressed breast cancer survivors: evaluating mindfulness and social support as mediators.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2017Trial
- Examining Mediators and Moderators of Yoga for Women With Breast Cancer Undergoing Radiotherapy.Integrative cancer therapies · 2016Trial
- Randomized controlled trial of cognitive behavioral stress management in breast cancer: a brief report of effects on 5-year depressive symptoms.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2015Trial
- Integrated, cross-sectoral psycho-oncology (isPO): a new form of care for newly diagnosed cancer patients in Germany.BMC health services research · 2022Article
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- Cancer-related coping processes as predictors of depressive symptoms, trajectories, and episodes.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2018Article
- Helping Yourself by Offering Help: Mediators of Expressive Helping in Survivors of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2017Article
- Personality (at Intrapsychic and Interpersonal Level) Associated With Quality of Life in Patients With Cancer (Lung and Colon).Cancer control : journal of the Moffitt Cancer CenterArticle
- Early Childhood Adversity and its Associations With Anxiety, Depression, and Distress in Women With Breast Cancer.PsychosomaticsArticle
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7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Careful reviews and meta-analyses have made valuable contributions to understanding the efficacy of psychosocial interventions for cancer patients. An important next step is to determine the mediators that explain the influence of efficacious interventions on outcomes. This systematic review summarizes tests of mediating variables from twenty-two projects conducted from 1989-2010. Although all authors provided some type of rationale for considering particular mediating relationships, the investigations varied widely with respect to the extent to which formal theoretical constructs were tested, the type and goals of the interventions studied, and the broad types of outcomes and potential mediators examined. Although there was some evidence supporting selected mediating relationships, with positive findings often found when mediating variables represented behaviors targeted by an intervention, the findings were mixed. Expanding the focus of research to include mechanisms in psychosocial oncology intervention research is necessary for providing a unified picture of how mediating relationships may be operating in this field.
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