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ReviewDeutsches Arzteblatt international2019

Interventions to Promote Resilience in Cancer Patients.

Paul Ludolph, Angela M Kunzler, Jutta Stoffers-Winterling, Isabella Helmreich, Klaus Lieb

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Review in Deutsches Arzteblatt international, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 65 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

65 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  5. Experiences of intimate partner violence among female cancer patients: a meta-synthesis of qualitative research.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025
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  16. Cognitive Correlates of Resilience in Adults Experiencing Homelessness.Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Paul LudolphDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany; German Resilience Center (DRZ) Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
Angela M Kunzler
Jutta Stoffers-Winterling
Isabella Helmreich
Klaus Lieb

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundResilience is the ability to maintain or rapidly regain mental health during or after stressful life experiences. Cancer is a major risk factor for stress- associated mental illness. In this review, we attempt to identify effective resilience- promoting interventions in adults with cancer.

methodsThe analysis was restricted to randomized, controlled trials of resilience- promoting interventions in adults with cancer in which training was provided for at least one psychosocial resilience factor. A selective search, with systematic compo- nents, for relevant publications was carried out in the PubMed and CENTRAL data- bases. Effect sizes (Hedges' g) were calculated wherever a fully reported dataset for resilience or post-traumatic growth was available.

resultsTwenty-two trials with a total of 2,912 patients were included in the analy- sis; the intervention was provided in an individual setting in five trials and in group format in 17. Beneficial effects on resilience and post-traumatic growth, some of them large, were observed in patients who were acutely ill with cancer and after in- terventions that were provided in more than 12 sessions. The effect size ranged from g = 0.33 to g = 1.45. Largely beneficial effects were achieved by interventions based on the concepts of positive psychology, supportive-expressive group therapy, behavioral therapy, or mindfulness, with considerable variation in individual effect sizes.

conclusionInterventions that promote resilience should be made available to inter- ested and motivated cancer patients. These interventions should be provided, in as soon as the diagnosis is made and should ex- tend over more than 12 sessions whenever possible.

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Mental HealthNeoplasmsResilience, PsychologicalAdultFemaleHumansMale

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PMID31941574
PMCPMC6976915

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