Martens Riley, Hou Mary, Isherwood Susan, Hunter-Smith Alison, Quan May-Lynn, Cuthbert Colleen
Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary, Calgary.
Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary.
Can Oncol Nurs J. 2024 Jul 1;34(3):381-403. doi: 10.5737/23688076343381. eCollection 2024 Summer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
患有癌症的年轻人往往有未得到满足的心理社会需求。以在线形式提供同伴支持对满足患有癌症的年轻人群体的这些需求的影响尚未得到充分研究。
我们检索了Cochrane对照试验中央注册库、护理学与健康领域数据库、Embase和Medline数据库。我们纳入了关于针对18至40岁青少年癌症幸存者的在线同伴支持干预措施的文章。
我们的文献检索得到了n = 2773篇文章，我们就12篇纳入文章达成了共识。我们使用基于干预与复制模板（TIDierR）清单的数据提取对这些文章进行了定性综合分析。总体而言，六项研究表明在线同伴支持与参与者幸福感的改善之间存在关联。因此，在线同伴支持可能对年轻癌症患者有用。
本系统评价总结了关于在线青少年同伴支持项目的可获得性和评估的当前知识状态，并揭示了该领域进一步研究的必要性。
