Psycho-Oncology - Science topic

Hello, I'm developing a tool that can help with that, it works with id and color pigmentation areas, one of the tool's modules can help with that. I'll be happy to help.

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Dear professor,

sorry but I have many problems to partecipate at the Conference because of my cronic heath problems.

All my best, Catina Feresin

A high survival rate cultivate hope among patients with specific disease like cancer. If you tell a person that the five year survival is 90%, his hope of being one of the 90 who survived will be high and justifiable. If someone knows that the survival of lung cancer is very low, in most instances they will surrender to their fate

Hello

II have looked at the psycho oncology journal and a couple of published journal articles within it and these look like they have used Vancouver reference system in that the references are numbered rather than in alphabetical order and there are references within the text with a number alongside

Could you not drop the publishers an email asking them for clarification if you are not sure? I don't think they would mind, I just googled the journal and it came up and the articles are all there, have a look at a few and see what you think, if they all use the method I suggest, then this is what I would use, if they vary then this suggest you can choose, I should drop the publishers, think it is Wiley and email and ask for clarification, good luck with your article.

Julie

Agree with Dr@ Mahesh Kumar

In the 21st century a revision needs on our medical science. A medical research cursory attention by either device or molecule is ultimately wrong and being violated the medical ethics.

A 20 years after the real medical research negligence and its consequences may affect to the innocent patients. They buried their valued life by the wrong medical treatment. We must follow basic science, but what is basic science?. Can we retrieve one ampule injection once used from the blood?.

Hi David

I am sure you are aware my group has looked at this topic extensively but you raise a very interesting question about depression screening in those with cognitive impairment. As you know depression screening has been fairly extensively validated in mild to moderate dementia but rarely in severe dementia or in your area: delirium. the other issue often raised is whether there is contamination from somatic symptoms. We have an unpublished meta-analysis on this plus this primary paper (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22310033) which found somatic contamination modest....and related to the point above not confounded by the item "poor concentration" which might give more information on your point about cognition. However this does deserve further study....are you looking into this? regards

Hi David,

You might also look here - Hidderley M, Holt M. A pilot randomized trial assessing the effects of autogenic training in early stage cancer patients in relation to psychological status and immune system responses. Eur J Oncol Nurs 2004;8(1):61-65.

Best wishes,

Ruth

We use the Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale.  We find it more informative and more specific that the DT.

Milton Erickson used metaphors in his naturalistic hypnosis to control severe pain.

An important read is McAlpine H, Joubert L, Martin-Sanchez F, Merolli M, Drummond KJ. A systematic review of types and efficacy of online interventions for cancer patients. Patient Educ Couns. 2015;98(3):283-95. doi:10.1016/j.pec.2014.11.002.

It gives a good overview of what is out there. Further studies:

Beatty L, Koczwara B, Wade T. Evaluating the efficacy of a self-guided Web-based CBT intervention for reducing cancer-distress: a randomised controlled trial.Support Care Cancer. 2015. doi:10.1007/s00520-015-2867-6.

Duffecy J, Sanford S, Wagner L, Begale M, Nawacki E, Mohr DC. Project onward: an innovative e-health intervention for cancer survivors. Psychooncology. 2013;22(4):947-51. doi:10.1002/pon.3075.

Owen JE, Klapow JC, Roth DL, Shuster JL, Jr., Bellis J, Meredith R et al. Randomized pilot of a self-guided internet coping group for women with early-stage breast cancer. Ann Beh Med. 2005;30(1):54-64. doi:10.1207/s15324796abm3001_7.

Ritterband LM, Bailey ET, Thorndike FP, Lord HR, Farrell-Carnahan L, Baum LD. Initial evaluation of an Internet intervention to improve the sleep of cancer survivors with insomnia. Psychooncology. 2012;21(7):695-705. doi:10.1002/pon.1969.

Wootten AC, Abbott JA, Meyer D, Chisholm K, Austin DW, Klein B et al. Preliminary results of a randomised controlled trial of an online psychological intervention to reduce distress in men treated for localised prostate cancer. European urology. 2015;68(3):471-9. doi:10.1016/j.eururo.2014.10.024.

Carpenter KM, Stoner SA, Schmitz K, McGregor BA, Doorenbos AZ. An online stress management workbook for breast cancer. J Behav Med. 2014;37(3):458-68. doi:10.1007/s10865-012-9481-6.

Van den Berg SW, Gielissen MF, Custers JA, van der Graaf WT, Ottevanger PB, Prins JB. BREATH: Web-Based Self-Management for Psychological Adjustment After Primary Breast Cancer-Results of a Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial. J Clin Oncol. 2015;33(25):2763-71. doi:10.1200/JCO.2013.54.9386.

Yun YH, Lee KS, Kim YW, Park SY, Lee ES, Noh DY et al. Web-based tailored education program for disease-free cancer survivors with cancer-related fatigue: a randomized controlled trial. J Clin Oncol. 2012;30(12):1296-303. doi:10.1200/JCO.2011.37.2979.

We use the MSAS a lot in our research. There are consistent associations both cross-sectionally and over time with distress. In our studies we have concluded that many  patients become "distressed" when there are residual physical symptoms or other factors associated with their cancer or treatment which prevent a patient's return to normal function.   We think this is because patients are frustrated, and scared by symptoms - in the former because they can't move on after treatment, the latter because, particularly symptoms that are intermittent  might signal recurrence of disease.  There is a very good paper by Paul Jacobson's group at Moffatt in Florida published in Health Psychology in 2013 showing how residual symptoms cascade to distress.  Insomnia  was associated with greater fatigue the next day and more depression the next day in a sample of women receiving chemo for ovarian cancer.

The MSAS is easily scored and the original paper by Victor Chang has details.  The paper below also details.

Thank you all for the contributions,

Alessandro

Hello Duarte Ribeiro,

below, you can find some recent references to better explore the topic:

guidelines:

Wiener, L., Viola, A., Koretski, J., Perper, E. D., & Patenaude, A. F. (2015). Pediatric psycho-oncology care: standards, guidelines, and consensus reports. Psycho-Oncology, 24(2), 204-211. doi:10.1002/pon.3589

best practice model:

Wiener, L. S., Pao, M., Kazak, A. E., Kupst, M. J., Patenaude, A. F., & Arceci, R. (2015). Pediatric psycho-oncology: A quick reference on the psychosocial dimensions of cancer symptom management (2nd ed.). New York, NY, US: Oxford University Press.

CBT approach:

Last, B. F., & Grootenhuis, M. A. (2012). Psychosocial interventions: A cognitive behavioral approach. In S. Kreitler, M. W. Ben-Arush, A. Martin, S. Kreitler, M. W. Ben-Arush, A. Martin (Eds.) , Pediatric psycho-oncology: Psychosocial aspects and clinical interventions (2nd ed.) (pp. 92-103). Wiley-Blackwell. doi:10.1002/9781119941033.ch9

overall review of the approaches:

Wiener, L., Oppenheim, D., Breyer, J., Battles, H., Zadeh, S., & Patenaude, A. F. (2012). A worldview of the professional experiences and training needs of pediatric psycho-oncologists. Psycho-Oncology, 21(9), 944-953. doi:10.1002/pon.3064

Shemesh, E. (2013). Review of Pediatric psycho-oncology: Psychosocial aspects and clinical interventions. 2nd ed. Journal Of The American Academy Of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 52(9), 972-974. doi:10.1016/j.jaac.2013.06.004

Dear Kerrie, a PubMed search for "conditioning effect of drugs AND conditioning [TITLE] AND drug [TITLE]" reveals numerous and even newer publications. One area where there are many studies is dependency and addictions. Nevertheless, as you wrote, most studies on this topic are of older date. I think this is also due to the simple fact that nowadays classic experimental studies for proofing this effect are no longer approved by the ethics committees. Please find below a couple of items that - in my pesonal opinion - are interesting to read.

Thank you for suggestions! They're a good start point!

Hi Ronán, brilliant, thank you so much - is there some special trick that allowed you to search my question? Seems too good to be true, but then Google are pretty amazing at that sort of thing.

Hi Rhonda,

I have conducted a systematic review of the psychosocial interventions for the family caregivers of stroke survivors. The significant changes in quality of life was usually found at about 6-12 months after the completion of the intervention. So you might need a longer follow-up for your study if QOL is one of your primary outcomes.

If your study with a shorter follow-up duration, you might consider some psychological indicators, such as anxiety, depression, uncertainty or sense of mastery

Hope the information helps

Empathy Quotient...

If I understood correctly in this case you are looking to parcel out the "satisfaction." If so then I would start with what are the "areas" that this satisfaction can be parceled into and generate the item set. You can set the items up using a system similar to what is used in the Student Satisfaction Inventory. Expectations and satisfaction for the two rating perhaps. Perhaps satisfaction and physician influence as the two ratings. It depends on what you wish to measure. See teh format at:

Dear Volker Beierlein,

Thank you for your quick response. You are completely rigth with your speculation about my screening intention and your note about sensitivity. I am looking forward to read you paper.

Best regards (also from Jochen Ernst)

Gregor

Thank you for your response and information Juan.