Online Support Groups & Psychological Morbidity in Prostate Cancer

Prostate Cancer Support Groups

To understand prostate cancer (PCa) specialists’ views about prostate cancer support groups (PCSGs), a volunteer sample of Canada-based PCa specialists (n = 150), including urologists (n = 100), radiation oncologists (n = 40), and medical oncologists (n = 10) were surveyed. The 56-item questionnaire used in this study included six sets of attitudinal items to measure prostate cancer specialists...

OnLInE CAnCER SUPPORT GROUPS

Rinat Nissim, PhD, Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Princess Margaret Hospital, University Health network, Toronto; Carmen G. Loiselle, PhD, Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, and Senior investigator, Lady Davis Institute and Centre for nursing Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal; Doris Howell, PhD, RBC Chair Oncology nursing Research & Scientist, Psy...

Active Surveillance for Localized Prostate Cancer and Psychological Morbidity Burnet

Overall, 16% (51/329) of patients met the HADS criteria for anxiety and 6% (20/329) for depression. Analyses indicated that higher anxiety scores were significantly associated with younger age ( P < 0.01) and a longer interval since diagnosis ( P < 0.01), but not with management by active surveillance ( P = 0.38). Higher depression scores were significantly associated with a longer interval sin...

The Effect of Prostate Cancer Support Groups on Uncertainty in Prostate Cancer

[Support groups for prostate cancer patients: integrative literature review].

This article is an integrative literature review to analyze the contribution of national and international studies examining the use of psychological support groups as a care strategy for patients diagnosed with prostate cancer. The electronic databases consulted were: LILACS, MedLine and PsycINFO, over a period of 20 years (1989-2009) with pre-defined criteria for inclusion. Eleven studies wer...