TY - JOUR
T1 - Effects of Psychosocial Interventions With Adult Cancer Patients
T2 - A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Experiments
AU - Meyer, Thomas J.
AU - Mark, Melvin M.
PY - 1995/3
Y1 - 1995/3
N2 - Meta-analytic methods were used to synthesize the results of published randomized, controlled-outcome studies of psychosocial interventions with adult cancer patients. Forty-five studies reporting 62 treatment-control comparisons were identified. Samples were predominantly White, female, and from the United States. Beneficial effect size d s were.24 for emotional adjustment measures,.19 for functional adjustment measures,.26 for measures of treatment-and disease-related symptoms, and.28 for compound and global measures. The effect size of.17 found for medical measures was not statistically significant for the few reporting studies. Effect sizes for treatment-control comparisons did not significantly differ among several categories of treatment: behavioral interventions, nonbehavioral counseling and therapy, informational and educational methods, organized social support provided by other patients, and other nonhospice interventions.
AB - Meta-analytic methods were used to synthesize the results of published randomized, controlled-outcome studies of psychosocial interventions with adult cancer patients. Forty-five studies reporting 62 treatment-control comparisons were identified. Samples were predominantly White, female, and from the United States. Beneficial effect size d s were.24 for emotional adjustment measures,.19 for functional adjustment measures,.26 for measures of treatment-and disease-related symptoms, and.28 for compound and global measures. The effect size of.17 found for medical measures was not statistically significant for the few reporting studies. Effect sizes for treatment-control comparisons did not significantly differ among several categories of treatment: behavioral interventions, nonbehavioral counseling and therapy, informational and educational methods, organized social support provided by other patients, and other nonhospice interventions.
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U2 - 10.1037/0278-6133.14.2.101
DO - 10.1037/0278-6133.14.2.101
M3 - Article
C2 - 7789344
AN - SCOPUS:0029268304
SN - 0278-6133
VL - 14
SP - 101
EP - 108
JO - Health Psychology
JF - Health Psychology
IS - 2
ER -