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ReviewCancers2023

Effectiveness of Therapeutic Education in Patients with Cancer Pain: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Ana María González-Martín, Iván Aguilera-García, Yolanda Castellote-Caballero, Yulieth Rivas-Campo, Antonio Bernal-Suárez, Agustín Aibar-Almazán

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Review in Cancers, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Trial
  3. Evaluation of The Spurgeon MethodInternational journal of therapeutic massage & bodywork · 2026
    Article
  4. A Systematic Review on the Effective Teaching Strategies and Methods for Cancer Patient Education.Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education · 2025
    Review
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Ana María González-MartínDepartment of Education and Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Atlántico Medio, 35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.
Iván Aguilera-GarcíaDepartment of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Jaén, 23071 Jaén, Spain.
Yolanda Castellote-CaballeroDepartment of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Jaén, 23071 Jaén, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-6233-6787
Yulieth Rivas-CampoFaculty of Human and Social Sciences, University of San Buenaventura-Cali, Santiago de Cali 760016, Colombia.ORCID 0000-0002-6964-5304
Antonio Bernal-SuárezDepartment of Education and Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Atlántico Medio, 35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.
Agustín Aibar-AlmazánDepartment of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Jaén, 23071 Jaén, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-9386-9199

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

(1) Objective: To review the existing evidence on pain education in patients with pain derived from an oncological process. (2) Methods: A systematic review was conducted using the databases Pubmed, Web of Science, PEDro, and Scopus. The selected studies had to incorporate instruction about the neurophysiology of pain into their educational program. The target population was cancer patients who had suffered pain for at least one month. The methodological quality of the articles collected was assessed using the PEDro scale. (3) Results: Some 698 studies were initially identified, of which 12 were included in this review. Four different models of pain education programs were found in the studies' interventions. Pain intensity, pain experience, quality of life, pain tolerance, and catastrophism were the variables that appeared most frequently. (4) Conclusions: This review demonstrates that pain education in patients with cancer pain may produce effects such as decreased pain intensity and catastrophism. Knowledge about pain also seems to increase. However, no benefit was reported for patients' overall quality of life. Therefore, more research is needed to clarify the effects of these interventions on the oncology population.

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cancereducation in neuroscience of painneoplasiapain education

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PMID37627151
PMCPMC10452673

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