Meta-analysis of psychosocial interventions to reduce pain in patients with cancer

Category Structured summary of systematic reviews
JournalDatabase of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)
Year 2012
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This review concluded that psychosocial interventions had medium-size effects on pain severity and interference in cancer patients and this supported use of quality-controlled psychosocial interventions in a multimodal approach to pain management. Apart from a risk of language bias this was a well-conducted review. The conclusions seem reliable but pain severity was reported in only four studies.
Epistemonikos ID: 380abe3a860a2944b8cb98a069da69f93bf3d435
First added on: Oct 04, 2012