Featured Review: Telephone interventions for managing symptoms in adults with cancer

Telephone interventions for managing symptoms in adults with cancer. This is particularly important at the moment for people with cancer, who have been advised to stay at home due to COVID-19.People with cancer experience a variety of symptoms such as depression, anxiety, fatigue and pain caused by their disease and its treatment. These are often managed, day-to-day, by patients or their family members. Poor management of symptoms may lead to other problems, such as difficulties in carrying out everyday tasks, poor sleep, and poor quality of life.Cancer specialists have developed psychological and educational interventions to provide support for the management of a range of cancer symptoms. These interventions can often be delivered by telephone in the patients ’ homes instead of face-to-face in hospital. This is beneficial for patients and their families, who would normally have to travel to hospital for outpatient appointments. This is particularly important at the moment for people with cancer, who have been advised to stay at home due to COVID-19.Cochrane Review authors aimed to answer the following questions.Are telephone interventions for adults with cancer effective in relieving symptoms of cancer and cancer treatment?Which symptoms are most reduced when telephone interventions are used?What aspects of telephone interventions have the most impact in reducing cancer symptoms?Inthis systematic review, telephone interventions were interventions given only, or mainly, by...

Source: Cochrane News and Events - June 1, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Katie Abbotts Source Type: news