ESTRO 2024 - Abstract Book

S5712

RTT - Patient experience and quality of life

ESTRO 2024

Amy Mason, Theresa O' Donovan, Dr. Andrew England, Lauren McCarthy, Prof. Mark Mc Entee, Annemarie Devine

University College Cork, Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy, School of Medicine, Cork, Ireland

Purpose/Objective:

Radiation Therapy (RT) induces side effects, both physical and psychosocial. No Systematic Review (SR) to date has specifically determined what effects psychosocial interventions have on the quality of life of curative patients with cancer being treated with radiation therapy, who are known to have specific and numerous needs. Patients with cancer often score unfavourably on measures of quality of life (QoL), which marks the necessity of appropriately measuring and addressing this. Many countries have underdeveloped psycho-oncology services, which exacerbates the issue. Psychosocial interventions may provide a means of improving QoL scores of this population. Thus, the aim of this SR is to identify and analyse the literature involving talk-based psychosocial interventions, which aim to improve QoL in curative patients receiving RT.

Material/Methods:

A review protocol was developed as per PROSPERO guidelines (CRD42022377773). MEDLINE, PsycINFO, Embase, CINAHL, PubMed, Cochrane library and SCOPUS databases were searched with relevant search terms according to PRISMA guidelines (Figure 1). Grey literature was hand-searched. Resulting papers underwent screening by title and abstract, followed by full-text review, data extraction and quality analysis.

Results:

The search yielded 3,600 studies. Twenty-eight underwent full-text review, and six were included in the final analysis. Four studies yielded statistically significant improvements in the mean QoL of the intervention group,