ReviewFrontiers in psychology2016
Optimism and Hope in Chronic Disease: A Systematic Review.
Review in Frontiers in psychology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 66 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
66 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Placing the US Federal Investment in Religion, Spirituality, and Health Research in Context: A Systematic Review and Comparison with Social Support and Optimism Funding Levels.Journal of religion and health · 2024Pooled it
- Toward an Integrated Model of Supportive Peer Relationships in Early Adolescence: A Systematic Review and Exploratory Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Pooled it
- Hopefulness among individuals living with schizophrenia and their caregivers in Tanzania: an actor-partner interdependence model.BMC psychiatry · 2023Trial
- The value of hope: development and validation of a contextual measure of hope among people living with HIV in urban Tanzania a mixed methods exploratory sequential study.BMC psychology · 2020Trial
- The association between hope, marital status, depression and persistent pain in men and women following cardiac surgery.BMC women's health · 2018Trial
- Inspiring Hope in Critical Care: The Role of Patients' Trust in Nurses.Nursing in critical care · 2026Article
- 'I Want Everyone to Have It, and Everyone to Be on It': A Feasibility Study of the Transforming Long Covid Intervention.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2026Article
- Psychological impact of genetic eligibility for CFTR modulator therapy in children with cystic fibrosis and their parents.European journal of pediatrics · 2026Article
- An evaluation of psychometric properties and utility of the Hope Index (HI): a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol.Systematic reviews · 2026Article
- Serial Mediation: How Optimism Reduces and Pessimism Intensifies Chronic Low Back Pain Through Depression and Biological Aging.Biological research for nursing · 2026Article
- Pain Science Education for People With Persistent Pain on NHS Waiting Lists: A Mixed Methods Study.Pain research & management · 2026Observational
- Dimensions of Hope as Mediators Between Negative Events and Recovery of Well-Being in Adults and Elderly.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Hope among patients discharged from an intensive care unit: A prospective cohort study.Nursing in critical care · 2025Article
- Racial differences in psychosocial resources and mental and physical health outcomes during pregnancy: a structural equation modeling approach.Maternal health, neonatology and perinatology · 2025Article
- Child Maltreatment and Whole-person Health: Investigation of Psychosocial Buffers Using Structural Equation Modeling.Biopsychosocial science and medicine · 2025Article
- Perceived and Dispositional Hope as Health-Related Constructs: Adaptation and Validation of the Polish Version of the Perceived Hope Scale.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Distressing symptoms and health-related quality of life in patients with chronic kidney disease.World journal of nephrology · 2025Article
- Positive impacts of psychological pain treatments: Supplementary analyses of a randomized clinical trial.Rehabilitation psychology · 2025Article
- Evaluation of the implementation of personalised outcomes forecasts to optimise supervised exercise therapy in patients with intermittent claudication: a multimethods process evaluation.BMJ open quality · 2025Article
- Analysis Impact of Positive Psychological Capital on Quality of Life Among Patients Post Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2025Article
6 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
There is a growing recognition that positive psychological functioning (which includes constructs such as optimism and hope) influences health. However, the understanding of these underlying mechanisms in relation to health is limited. Therefore, this review sought to identify what the scientific literature says about the influence of optimism and hope on chronic disease treatment. A search was conducted in the PsycINFO, Scopus, Pubmed, and Web of Science databases using the indexing terms
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