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SynthesisPsycho-oncology2021

Psychological problems among cancer patients in relation to healthcare and societal costs: A systematic review.

Florie E Van Beek, Lonneke M A Wijnhoven, Karen Holtmaat, José A E Custers, Judith B Prins, Irma M Verdonck-de Leeuw, Femke Jansen

Registry-linked trialOpen access · bronzeAbstract readSystematic Review
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Synthesis in Psycho-oncology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06412341 (A Feasibility Study to Inform an RCT to Evaluate 'Accepting Your Body After Cancer', an Online-delivered, Group-based CBT Body Image Intervention, for Women Who Have Received Treatment for Breast Cancer), which is not on this map. Cited by 30 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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30citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT06412341 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2024, after this paper: background citation

A Feasibility Study to Inform an RCT to Evaluate 'Accepting Your Body After Cancer', an Online-delivered, Group-based CBT Body Image Intervention, for Women Who Have Received Treatment for Breast Cancer

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity of the West of EnglandRan2024 to 2025Enrolled120ConditionsBreast Cancer FemaleArmsAccepting your Body after Cancer, Macmillan body image booklet
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 51 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Florie E Van BeekDepartment of Clinical, Neuro- and Developmental Psychology, Faculty of Behavioral and Movement Sciences, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Lonneke M A WijnhovenDepartment of Medical Psychology, Radboudumc Nijmegen, Radboud Institute of Health Sciences, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-4234-4704
Karen HoltmaatDepartment of Clinical, Neuro- and Developmental Psychology, Faculty of Behavioral and Movement Sciences, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-1067-3327
José A E CustersDepartment of Medical Psychology, Radboudumc Nijmegen, Radboud Institute of Health Sciences, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-1573-6040
Judith B PrinsDepartment of Medical Psychology, Radboudumc Nijmegen, Radboud Institute of Health Sciences, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-5720-6091
Irma M Verdonck-de LeeuwDepartment of Clinical, Neuro- and Developmental Psychology, Faculty of Behavioral and Movement Sciences, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-4507-4607
Femke JansenDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Amsterdam UMC, VUmc Cancer Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-0111-0557
Radboud University Nijmegen · NLAmsterdam Neuroscience · NLVrije Universiteit Amsterdam · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveThis study systematically reviewed the association of psychological problems among cancer patients with healthcare and societal resource use and costs.

methodsPubMed, PsycINFO, and Embase were searched (until 31 January 2021) for studies on psychological symptoms (anxiety, depression, distress, fear of recurrence) or psychiatric disorders (anxiety, depression, adjustment) and healthcare use (e.g., mental, inpatient healthcare), economic losses by patients and family, economic losses in other sectors (e.g., absence from work), and costs. The search, data extraction, and quality assessment were performed by two authors.

resultsOf the 4157 identified records, 49 articles were included (psychological symptoms (n = 34), psychiatric disorders (n = 14), both (n = 1)) which focused on healthcare use (n = 36), economic losses by patients and family (n = 5), economic losses in other sectors (n = 8) and/or costs (n = 13). In total, for 12 of the 94 associations strong evidence was found. Psychological symptoms and psychiatric disorders were positively associated with increased healthcare use (mental, primary, inpatient, outpatient healthcare), losses in other sectors (absence from work), and costs (inpatient, outpatient, total healthcare costs). Moderate evidence was found for a positive association between (any) psychiatric disorder and depression disorder with inpatient healthcare and medication use, respectively.

conclusionsPsychological problems in cancer patients are associated with increased healthcare use, healthcare costs and economic losses. Further research is needed on psychological problems in relation to understudied healthcare use or costs categories, productivity losses, and informal care costs.

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Delivery of Health CareNeoplasmsAnxietyAnxiety DisordersHealth Care CostsHumanscancercostshealthcare useoncologypsychiatric disorderpsychological symptomwork productivity

Identifiers

PMID34228838
PMCPMC9291760
OpenAlexW3173684601

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