Amir Mohamad Nazari, Sogand Sarmadi, Mohammad Javad Ghazanfari, Mostafa Gholami, Amir Emami Zeydi, Akbar Zare-Kaseb
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Background: The presence of cancer and its treatment will induce anxiety and various effects, not only on a physical level but also on a psychological level. Play therapy can be used by children to articulate their emotions and foster proficient communication with healthcare professionals and caregivers. Play therapy emerges as a highly effective method for the management of illness in children diagnosed with cancer.
Material and methods: A thorough search was conducted across multiple databases including PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, and Cochrane Library. Our review included only interventional studies published from inception to 1 March 2024 that investigated the impact of play therapy on depression and anxiety in hospitalized children with cancer. For each study, information was gathered regarding the study's objective, participant characteristics, conditions, intervention details, comparisons made, study duration, and outcome measures.
Results: Following the retrieval of 2158 records, 12 studies were found to meet the eligibility criteria and were thus selected to include in the synthesis. Play therapy has been explored in several studies using interventions like cognitive-behavioral-based play therapy, family-based play therapy, group-based play therapy, virtual reality-based play therapy, and play therapy combined with other therapeutic approaches. Specifically, six studies investigated the effects of play therapy on anxiety, two studies on depression, and four studies on anxiety and depression.
Conclusion: Play therapy is highly recommended due to its simplicity, minimal requirement of tools and materials, ease of implementation, affordability, and suitability for hospitalized preschool and school-age children with cancer.
背景：癌症的存在及其治疗会引起焦虑和各种影响，不仅在身体层面上，而且在心理层面上。游戏疗法可以被儿童用来表达他们的情绪，并促进与医疗保健专业人员和护理人员的熟练沟通。游戏疗法作为一种非常有效的治疗癌症儿童疾病的方法而出现。材料和方法：在PubMed、Web of Science、Scopus、谷歌Scholar和Cochrane Library等多个数据库中进行了彻底的搜索。我们的回顾仅包括从开始到2024年3月1日发表的介入性研究，这些研究调查了游戏治疗对住院癌症儿童抑郁和焦虑的影响。对于每项研究，收集了有关研究目标、参与者特征、条件、干预细节、比较、研究持续时间和结果测量的信息。结果：在检索2158条记录后，发现12项研究符合资格标准，因此被选择纳入综合。游戏治疗已经在一些研究中进行了探索，包括基于认知行为的游戏治疗，基于家庭的游戏治疗，基于群体的游戏治疗，基于虚拟现实的游戏治疗，以及游戏治疗与其他治疗方法的结合。具体来说，有6项研究调查了游戏治疗对焦虑的影响，2项研究调查了抑郁，4项研究调查了焦虑和抑郁。结论：游戏治疗方法简单，对工具和材料要求低，易于实施，价格合理，适合住院的学龄前和学龄癌症儿童。
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Supportive Care in Cancer provides members of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC) and all other interested individuals, groups and institutions with the most recent scientific and social information on all aspects of supportive care in cancer patients. It covers primarily medical, technical and surgical topics concerning supportive therapy and care which may supplement or substitute basic cancer treatment at all stages of the disease.
Nursing, rehabilitative, psychosocial and spiritual issues of support are also included.
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