Use and impact of virtual resources for peer support by young adults living with cancer: A systematic review.

Canadian Oncology Nursing Journal Pub Date : 2024-07-01 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI:10.5737/23688076343381

Riley Martens, Mary Hou, Susan Isherwood, Alison Hunter-Smith, May-Lynn Quan, Colleen Cuthbert

{"title":"Use and impact of virtual resources for peer support by young adults living with cancer: A systematic review.","authors":"Riley Martens, Mary Hou, Susan Isherwood, Alison Hunter-Smith, May-Lynn Quan, Colleen Cuthbert","doi":"10.5737/23688076343381","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Background: Young adults (YA) with cancer often have unmet psychosocial needs. The impact of peer support delivered in an online format to fulfil these needs in the populations of YA with cancer has not been thoroughly examined.Methods: We searched Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, CINAHL, Embase, and Medline databases. We included articles about online peer support interventions for YA cancer survivors between the ages of 18 to 40 years old.Results: Our literature search yielded n = 2,773 articles and we obtained consensus on 12 articles for inclusion. We qualitatively synthesized these articles using data abstraction based on the Template for Intervention and Replication (TIDierR) checklist. Overall, six studies demonstrated correlation between online peer support and improved wellbeing of participants. Thus, online peer support may be useful for young cancer patients.Conclusion: This systematic review summarizes the current state of knowledge regarding the availability and evaluation of online YA peer support programs and reveals the need for further research in this field.","PeriodicalId":31563,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Oncology Nursing Journal","volume":"34 3","pages":"381-403"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11534361/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Canadian Oncology Nursing Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5737/23688076343381","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2024/1/1 0:00:00","PubModel":"eCollection","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

Background: Young adults (YA) with cancer often have unmet psychosocial needs. The impact of peer support delivered in an online format to fulfil these needs in the populations of YA with cancer has not been thoroughly examined.

Methods: We searched Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, CINAHL, Embase, and Medline databases. We included articles about online peer support interventions for YA cancer survivors between the ages of 18 to 40 years old.

Results: Our literature search yielded n = 2,773 articles and we obtained consensus on 12 articles for inclusion. We qualitatively synthesized these articles using data abstraction based on the Template for Intervention and Replication (TIDierR) checklist. Overall, six studies demonstrated correlation between online peer support and improved wellbeing of participants. Thus, online peer support may be useful for young cancer patients.

Conclusion: This systematic review summarizes the current state of knowledge regarding the availability and evaluation of online YA peer support programs and reveals the need for further research in this field.

查看原文

微信好友朋友圈 QQ好友复制链接

本刊更多论文

年轻癌症患者使用虚拟同伴支持资源及其影响：系统综述。

背景：患有癌症的年轻成年人（YA）往往有未得到满足的社会心理需求。以在线形式提供同伴支持以满足癌症青年患者这些需求的影响尚未得到深入研究：我们检索了 Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials、CINAHL、Embase 和 Medline 数据库。我们收录了针对 18 至 40 岁癌症幸存者的在线同伴支持干预的文章：我们在文献检索中获得了 n = 2,773 篇文章，并就纳入 12 篇文章达成了共识。我们根据干预和复制模板（TIDierR）核对表进行了数据抽取，对这些文章进行了定性综合。总体而言，有六项研究证明了在线同伴支持与改善参与者福祉之间的相关性。因此，在线同伴支持可能对年轻癌症患者有用：这篇系统性综述总结了有关在线青年同伴支持项目的可用性和评估方面的知识现状，并揭示了在这一领域开展进一步研究的必要性。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文去求助

来源期刊

Canadian Oncology Nursing Journal

自引率

0.00%

发文量

期刊介绍： The Canadian Oncology Nursing Journal is published quarterly in the Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall. The CONJ is the only Canadian publication in cancer nursing. It is a bilingual, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the interests of the professional nurse who provides care to patients with cancer and their families. The journal endeavours to publish timely papers, promote the image of the nurse involved in cancer care, stimulate nursing issues in oncology nursing and encourage nurses to publish in national media.