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ReviewCancers2022

Digital and Interactive Health Interventions Minimize the Physical and Psychological Impact of Breast Cancer, Increasing Women's Quality of Life: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Esteban Obrero-Gaitán, Irene Cortés-Pérez, Tania Calet-Fernández, Héctor García-López, María Del Carmen López Ruiz, María Catalina Osuna-Pérez

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Review in Cancers, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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10citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 20 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

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Esteban Obrero-GaitánDepartment of Health Sciences, University of Jaén, Campus Las Lagunillas s/n, 23071 Jaén, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-8430-5500
Irene Cortés-PérezDepartment of Health Sciences, University of Jaén, Campus Las Lagunillas s/n, 23071 Jaén, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-1876-1399
Tania Calet-FernándezClínica Vitaudio Linares, Baños Street 16, 23700 Linares, Spain.
Héctor García-LópezPhysical Therapy and Medicine, Department of Nursing, University of Almeria, Road Sacramento s/n, 04120 Almeria, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-3160-7692
María Del Carmen López RuizDepartment of Health Sciences, University of Jaén, Campus Las Lagunillas s/n, 23071 Jaén, Spain.
María Catalina Osuna-PérezDepartment of Health Sciences, University of Jaén, Campus Las Lagunillas s/n, 23071 Jaén, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-1293-2983
Universidad de Jaén · ESUniversity of Almería · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Digital and interactive health interventions (DIHIs), such as virtual-reality-based therapy (VRBT) and smartphone-app-based therapy (SABT), may be useful for reducing the impact of the signs and symptoms of breast cancer (BC) in women. The aim of this meta-analysis was to explore the effect of DIHIs on improving pain, anxiety, depression, quality of life (QoL), and upper extremity (UE) disability-related lymphedema in women with BC.

methodsWe searched PubMed Medline, Web of Science, Scopus, CINAHL, Physiotherapy Evidence Database, and SciELO for the period ending February 2022. We included studies that assessed the effect of DIHIs on UE motor disability, pain, anxiety, depression, and QoL in women with BC. The effect size was calculated using Cohen's standardized mean difference (SMD) and its 95% confidence interval (95% CI).

resultsTwenty studies providing data from 1613 women with BC were included. With respect to UE disability, DIHIs increased flexion (SMD, 1.92; 95%CI: -1.16, 2.68), abduction (SMD, 1.66; 95%CI: 0.91, 2.42), external rotation shoulder range of motion (SMD, 1.1; 95%CI: 0.36, 1.85), UE function (SMD, -0.72; 95%CI: -1.31, -0.13), and handgrip strength (SMD, 0.4; 95%CI: 0.21, 0.59). DIHIs reduced pain (SMD, -0.8; 95%CI: -1.31, -0.26), anxiety (SMD, -1.02; 95%CI: -1.71, -0.34), and depression (SMD, -1.57; 95%CI: -3.1, -0.08). Finally, DIHIs increased overall health (SMD, 0.6; 95%CI: 0.31, 0.89).

conclusionsRight at the end of therapy, DIHIs are effective at improving UE function, pain, anxiety, depression, and QoL in women with BC. VRBT has a greater effect than SABT for the assessed outcomes.

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anxietybreast cancerdepressionmeta-analysispainquality of lifesmartphone appsupper extremityvirtual realitywomen

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PMCPMC9454975
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