Abstract
Context
Life Review Intervention (LRI) has started to shift in emphasis of focus onto persons
with cancer and its effectiveness in improving their psychological well-being. The
process has now begin integrating into healthcare settings as a complementary treatment
for this population.
Objectives
The current systematic review aims to synthesize existing feasibility studies on LRI
among persons with cancer.
Methods
A literature search was conducted from the databases PubMed, ScienceDirect, PsychArticles,
Scopus, Psychology and Behavioral Science Collection, Cochrane, EBSCO, and other methods.
Eligible articles were selected based on the predetermined inclusion criteria and
data extraction revolved around the study design, intervention procedure, and feasibility
and psychological outcome measures.
Results
The search yielded 8,627 articles, to which respondents simultaneously receiving other
forms of psychological interventions were excluded. Eight were selected for evaluation.
Four were integrated interventions while the remaining were conducted with the standard
intervention. The sample size range from 5 to 90 persons with cancer. All reviewed
articles reported optimum feasibility, as presented by recruitment capability, participant
retention rate, acceptability and satisfaction, intervention implementation, and evaluation
of intervention outcome measures. However, a majority of psychological outcome measures
indicated no statistical significance.
Conclusion
LRI is feasible to be implemented among persons with cancer, given the high acceptability
and availability of resources for its implementation. The present review highlighted
the preliminary knowledge on the feasibility of the intervention.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: August 02, 2022
Accepted:
July 25,
2022
Footnotes
Conflict of interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Funding: This work was supported by the Research Incentive Grant, Centre for Research and Instrument Management, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia [grant number GP-2020-K013053].
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