Applebaum Allison J, Kolva Elissa A, Kulikowski Julia R, Jacobs Jordana D, DeRosa Antonio, Lichtenthal Wendy G, Olden Megan E, Rosenfeld Barry, Breitbart William
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA
Fordham University, USA.
J Health Psychol. 2014 Sep;19(9):1103-19. doi: 10.1177/1359105313484782. Epub 2013 Oct 24.
This systematic review synthesizes the complex literature on prognostic awareness in cancer. A total of 37 studies examining cancer patients' understanding of their prognosis were included. Prognostic awareness definitions and assessment methods were inconsistent across studies. A surprisingly high percentage of patients (up to 75%) were unaware of their poor prognosis, and in several studies, even their cancer diagnosis (up to 96%), particularly in studies conducted outside of North America. This review highlights surprisingly low rates of prognostic awareness in patients with advanced cancer as well as discrepancies in prognostic awareness assessment, suggesting the need for empirically validated measures of prognostic awareness.
本系统评价综合了关于癌症患者预后知晓情况的复杂文献。共纳入了37项研究,这些研究考察了癌症患者对自身预后的理解。各研究中预后知晓情况的定义和评估方法并不一致。令人惊讶的是,相当高比例的患者(高达75%)并未意识到自己预后不良,在多项研究中,甚至对自己的癌症诊断情况也不知情(高达96%),尤其是在北美以外地区开展的研究中。本评价凸显了晚期癌症患者预后知晓率低得出奇,以及预后知晓情况评估存在差异,这表明需要有经过实证验证的预后知晓情况衡量指标。