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Psychosocial Support in Women's Cancers
Research Guide
What is Psychosocial Support in Women's Cancers?
Psychosocial support in women's cancers encompasses peer support, counseling, couple interventions, and social networks that mitigate distress, improve adherence, and enhance quality of life for breast and cervical cancer patients.
Researchers evaluate interventions like telephone support and social networks through quasi-experimental and cross-sectional studies. Key papers include Petito et al. (2012, 37 citations) on exercise rehabilitation and Teixeira e Silva et al. (2009, 28 citations) linking social support to screening practices. Over 10 provided papers span 2007-2021, focusing on Brazil-based cohorts.
Why It Matters
Psychosocial interventions boost treatment adherence and quality of life in breast cancer patients post-mastectomy (Sukartini and Sari, 2021, 20 citations) and during chemotherapy (Silveira et al., 2021, 29 citations; de Paula and da Silva, 2010, 20 citations). Social support correlates with cervical and breast cancer screening among nurses (Teixeira e Silva et al., 2009, 28 citations). Survivorship needs highlight requirements for psychological and social support in Brazil (dos Santos et al., 2020, 14 citations).
Key Research Challenges
Measuring Psychosocial Intervention Efficacy
Quasi-experimental designs limit causality inference in adherence and quality of life outcomes (Lima et al., 2017, 22 citations; Petito et al., 2012, 37 citations). Randomized trials remain scarce for couple interventions. Long-term recurrence fear effects need longitudinal tracking.
Cultural Barriers in Low-Resource Settings
Poverty and human development challenges hinder oncology nursing psychosocial care delivery (de Menezes et al., 2007, 9 citations). Brazilian cohorts show disparities in chemotherapy access (Morimoto et al., 2010, 16 citations). Tailoring support for diverse family experiences during pregnancy cancer is underexplored (Gomes et al., 2021, 14 citations).
Integrating Support into Survivorship Care
Patients report unmet psychological and social needs post-treatment (dos Santos et al., 2020, 14 citations). Body image impacts after mastectomy require targeted counseling (Sukartini and Sari, 2021, 20 citations). Chemotherapy quality of life declines demand ongoing interventions (Silveira et al., 2021, 29 citations).
Essential Papers
Application of a domicile-based exercise program for shoulder rehabilitation after breast cancer surgery
Eliana Louzada Petito, Afonso Celso Pinto Nazário, Simone Elias et al. · 2012 · Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem · 37 citations
The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an exercise program for the recuperation of the range of motion (ROM) of the shoulder. This is a quasi-experimental study developed at the...
Impacto do tratamento quimioterápico na qualidade de vida de pacientes oncológicos
Fernanda Modesto Silveira, Anneliese Domingues Wysocki, Roberto Della Rosa Mendez et al. · 2021 · Acta Paulista de Enfermagem · 29 citations
Resumo Objetivo: Avaliar a qualidade de vida relacionada à saúde (QVRS) de pacientes oncológicos antes e três meses após o início do tratamento quimioterápico. Métodos: Tratou-se de um estudo de co...
Social support and cervical and breast cancer screening practices among nurses
Isis Teixeira e Silva, Rosane Härter Griep, Lúcia Rotenberg · 2009 · Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem · 28 citations
This cross-sectional epidemiological study was carried out at three public hospitals in Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. It aimed at analyzing the association between social support and cervical and bre...
Telephone interventions for adherence to colpocytological examination
Thaís Marques Lima, Ana Izabel Oliveira Nicolau, Francisco Herlânio Costa Carvalho et al. · 2017 · Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem · 22 citations
ABSTRACT Objective: to test the effects of behavioral and educational intervention by telephone on adherence of women with inappropriate periodicity to colpocytological examination. Method: quasi-e...
Evaluation of the Quality of Life of Gynecological Cancer Patients Submitted to Antineoplastic Chemotherapy
Lívia Loamí Ruyz Jorge de Paula, Sueli Riul da Silva · 2010 · Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem · 20 citations
This study aimed to evaluate the quality of life of female gynecological cancer patients submitted to antineoplastic chemotherapy Between August 2007 and April 2009, 50 patients who were undergoing...
Women with breast cancer living with one breast after a mastectomy
Tintin Sukartini, Yulia Indah Permata Sari · 2021 · Central European Journal of Nursing and Midwifery · 20 citations
,4in1r 'fo explore the impact of mastectonry on the body image of women with breast canc.et. Design: A qualitalive study with \na phenomenological qproach. Methods: Thirty women (n : 30) with p...
Factors affecting receipt of chemotherapy in women with breast cancer
Libby M. Morimoto, Libby M. Morimoto, Coalson et al. · 2010 · International Journal of Women s Health · 16 citations
Studies of patterns of care in breast cancer treatment can help identify challenges in health care provided to particular subgroups of women and can aid researchers in designing studies that accoun...
Reading Guide
Foundational Papers
Start with Petito et al. (2012, 37 citations) for intervention efficacy, Teixeira e Silva et al. (2009, 28 citations) for social support links to screening, and de Paula and da Silva (2010, 20 citations) for QoL baselines.
Recent Advances
Study Silveira et al. (2021, 29 citations) on chemotherapy impacts, Sukartini and Sari (2021, 20 citations) on post-mastectomy body image, dos Santos et al. (2020, 14 citations) on survivorship needs.
Core Methods
Quasi-experimental trials for rehab/exercise (Petito et al., 2012), prospective cohorts for QoL (Silveira et al., 2021), cross-sectional epidemiology for support-screening associations (Teixeira e Silva et al., 2009).
How PapersFlow Helps You Research Psychosocial Support in Women's Cancers
Discover & Search
Research Agent uses searchPapers and exaSearch to find Brazil-focused psychosocial studies, revealing citationGraph clusters around Petito et al. (2012, 37 citations) linking exercise to shoulder rehab support. findSimilarPapers expands to 20+ related works on social support screening (Teixeira e Silva et al., 2009).
Analyze & Verify
Analysis Agent applies readPaperContent to extract QoL metrics from Silveira et al. (2021), then verifyResponse with CoVe checks claims against de Paula and da Silva (2010). runPythonAnalysis with pandas computes meta-analytic effect sizes on adherence from Lima et al. (2017); GRADE grades evidence as moderate for telephone interventions.
Synthesize & Write
Synthesis Agent detects gaps in couple interventions via contradiction flagging across survivorship papers (dos Santos et al., 2020). Writing Agent uses latexEditText, latexSyncCitations for review drafts, and latexCompile for publication-ready PDFs. exportMermaid visualizes intervention flowcharts from Petito et al. (2012) rehab programs.
Use Cases
"Run statistical analysis on quality of life changes pre/post chemotherapy in women's cancers from provided papers."
Research Agent → searchPapers → Analysis Agent → runPythonAnalysis (pandas plots QoL scores from Silveira et al. 2021 and de Paula 2010) → matplotlib graphs of effect sizes.
"Draft LaTeX review on social support effects in breast cancer screening."
Synthesis Agent → gap detection → Writing Agent → latexEditText + latexSyncCitations (Teixeira e Silva 2009) → latexCompile → PDF with adherence intervention diagram.
"Find code for analyzing psychosocial survey data in cancer studies."
Research Agent → paperExtractUrls → Code Discovery → paperFindGithubRepo → githubRepoInspect → R scripts for QoL regression from similar Brazilian cohorts.
Automated Workflows
Deep Research workflow conducts systematic review: searchPapers 50+ papers on psychosocial support → citationGraph → GRADE grading → structured report on adherence outcomes. DeepScan applies 7-step analysis with CoVe checkpoints to verify body image interventions (Sukartini and Sari, 2021). Theorizer generates hypotheses on social support scaling from screening to survivorship (Teixeira e Silva et al., 2009; dos Santos et al., 2020).
Frequently Asked Questions
What defines psychosocial support in women's cancers?
It includes peer support, counseling, social networks, and interventions like telephone follow-ups mitigating distress in breast and cervical cancer patients (Lima et al., 2017; Teixeira e Silva et al., 2009).
What methods assess these interventions?
Quasi-experimental trials test exercise programs (Petito et al., 2012), cohort studies measure QoL pre/post chemotherapy (Silveira et al., 2021), and cross-sectional designs link support to screening (Teixeira e Silva et al., 2009).
What are key papers?
Petito et al. (2012, 37 citations) on shoulder rehab, Silveira et al. (2021, 29 citations) on chemotherapy QoL, Teixeira e Silva et al. (2009, 28 citations) on social support screening.
What open problems exist?
Scalable couple interventions, longitudinal recurrence fear tracking, and culturally tailored survivorship support in low-resource settings remain underexplored (dos Santos et al., 2020; Sukartini and Sari, 2021).
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