Oral Presentation COSA-IPOS Joint Scientific Meeting 2012

What do we know about psychosocial and supportive care interventions in people with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer? A systematic review  (#212)

Haryana M Dhillon 1 2 3 , V Chalasani 3 4
  1. Centre for Medical Psychology & Evidence-based Decision-making, School of Psychology, Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
  2. Psycho-Oncology Cooperative Research Group, School of Psychology, Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
  3. Australia New Zealand Urinary- Genito-Urinary Prostate Cancer Trials Group, Sydney, NSW, Australia
  4. NHMRC Clinical Trial Centre, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Background:  People with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer may have significant psychological morbidity, due to multiple procedures (cystoscopies), intravesical therapies (e.g. intravesical chemotherapy), and due to their fear of being informed that their cancer has either progressed or recurred.

There may be opportunities develop, evaluate and implement interventions to minimise psychosocial morbidity in this population.  There may be additional beneficial outcomes resulting from managing psychosocial morbidity, including improved adherence to appropriate monitoring and follow-up, reduced anxiety, increased quality of life, or improved self-efficacy.

Aim:  Synthesise the current literature on supportive care and psycho-social intervention studies in patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer.

Methods: We will be searching MEDLINE, CINHAL, Cochrane Library and EMBASE for articles published from January 1950 to August 2012 related to non-muscle invasive bladder cancer, physical activity, psychosocial interventions and quality of life.  This review is guided by Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Statement

Results: Results of the systematic review will be reported.