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- A variety of factors influence why certain types of cancer are more stigmatized than others; this occurs in part because different cancer types have different causes, different treatments, and different outcomes. Whereas cancer stigma takes many forms, the outcomes of the stigma are most often negative.
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Aug 28, 2021 · The prevalence of stigma within cancer patients can diverge significantly across the disease’s many forms. For lung cancer patients, this stigma may appear as the manifestation of guilt due to the high association of their condition with smoking.
Sep 24, 2013 · A recent study found that at least one-third of men with colon cancer experienced some degree of stigma or self-blame related to their malignancy. That group appeared to be more vulnerable to...
Sep 25, 2014 · Patients with a cancer viewed as controllable (e.g. lung cancer), or those with visible treatment side effects, may be more likely to experience identity threat and stigma. Therefore, disease/treatment characteristics is a proposed modification of the model of contributors to identity threat in cancer (see Figure 1 ).
- Sarah Knapp, Allison Marziliano, Anne Moyer
- 10.1177/2055102914552281
- 2014
- 2014/07
Nov 28, 2016 · Lung cancer in particular is surrounded by stigma. Australians show less sympathy for people with lung cancer than those with other forms. A recent report found out of 15 nations surveyed,...
- Search Process
- Characteristics of The Included Studies
- Quality Assessment of The Studies
- Synthesis of Results
- Demographic Variables
- Disease-Related Variables
- Psychosocial Variables
Overall, 2592 studies were identified from our initial search, and 1706 studies remained after removing duplicates, of which 1667 studied were excluded after screening via the titles and abstracts because they were not related to the topic. Then, 39 studies went forward for further review, of which 8 studies were excluded due to not focus on stigma...
The thirty-one studies with a total of 7114 participants enrolled in the systematic review and meta-analysis were published between 2009 and 2020, of which twenty-nine [12, 14, 15, 21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46] were cross-sectional studies and two [47, 48] were longitudinal studies. The sample sizes ...
Among the included studies, 14 articles [14, 22,23,24, 26, 28, 30, 36, 38, 39, 42, 46,47,48] scored in the 8 to 11 range and 14 articles [12, 15, 21, 25, 31, 32, 34, 35, 37, 40, 41, 43,44,45] scored in the 4 to 7 range. However, 3 articles [27, 29, 33] with only abstracts were scored 3. In general, we deemed that the quality of these articles was s...
Twenty-two variables were ultimately analyzed quantitatively, including demographic variables (age, gender, education, income, and marital status), disease-related variables (symptom severity, natural killer cell subset), and psychosocial variables (depression, anxiety, quality of life, body image loss, self-esteem, self-blame, self-efficacy, postt...
Age
Nine studies [14, 15, 22, 24, 28, 32, 33, 36, 46] reported the relationship between age and cancer stigma. Nevertheless, a high level of heterogeneity was detected among the included studies (I2 = 97%, P< 0.01) and no significant difference was observed between the combined estimates (z value, 0.05, 95% CI, − 0.25, 0.34) (Supplementary Figure 2). In the sensitivity analysis, studies were detected by omitting one study in each turn from the meta-analysis; the pooled z value of the correlation...
Gender
Four studies [22, 32, 36, 42] that included a total of 2418 patients provided eligible data for demonstrating the correlation between gender and cancer stigma. The pooled results showed that higher cancer stigma scores were associated with being male (z value, 0.12, 95% CI, 0.08, 0.16) (Supplementary Figure 4).
Education
Six studies [12, 15, 32, 35,36,37] reported the correlation between education and cancer stigma. However, prominent heterogeneity was detected among the eligible studies (I2 = 90%, P< 0.01) and no significant difference was observed in the study effect size estimate (z value, − 0.06, 95% CI, − 0.24, 0.12) (Supplementary Figure 5). In the sensitivity analysis, studies were detected by omitting one study in each turn from the meta-analysis; the pooled z value of the correlation between educatio...
Symptom severity
Two studies [15, 24] reported the correlation between symptom severity and cancer stigma. Pooled results obtained using a random effects model suggested that increased cancer stigma was associated with severe symptoms (z value, 0.39, 95% CI, 0.14, 0.65) (Supplementary Figure 10).
Natural killer cell subset
Two studies [38, 39] provided available data on the association between NK cell subset and cancer stigma. Pooled results obtained using a random effects model revealed that higher levels of cancer stigma were associated with lower NK cell subsets (z value, − 0.81, 95% CI, − 1.00, − 0.62) (Supplementary Figure 11).
Depression
Fourteen studies [12, 15, 21,22,23,24,25,26, 28, 29, 31, 33, 35, 40] that included a total of 2652 patients provided eligible data for demonstrating the correlation between depression and cancer stigma. The random effects model was applied since a high level of heterogeneity was observed in the analysis (I2 = 88%, P < 0.01). The results indicated that increased cancer stigma scores were associated with increased depression (z value, 0.43, 95% CI, 0.32, 0.54) (Supplementary Figure 12). In the...
Anxiety
Five studies [21, 24, 28, 35, 39] provided available data on the correlation between anxiety and cancer stigma. Pooled results obtained using a random effects model revealed that higher levels of cancer stigma were associated with higher levels of anxiety (z value, 0.45, 95% CI, 0.23, 0.68) (Supplementary Figure 17). In the sensitivity analysis, studies were detected by omitting one study in each turn from the meta-analysis, when we removed a report that contributed to the final result;...
Quality of life
Six studies [22, 28, 33, 41, 43, 47] included a total of 889 patients provided data to analyze the correlation between QOL and cancer stigma. The fixed effects model showed increased cancer stigma was associated with a lower level of QOL (z value, − 0.59, 95% CI, − 0.65, − 0.52) (Supplementary Figure 19). In the sensitivity analysis, studies were detected by omitting one study in each turn from the meta-analysis, when we removed a report that contributed to the final result; the pooled z...
- Zehao Huang, Ting Yu, Siyu Wu, Ailing Hu
- 2021
Oct 25, 2021 · Stigma is known to negatively influence cancer patients’ psychosocial behaviour and treatment outcomes. The aim of this study was to systematically review the current data on cancer-related stigma across different populations and identify effective interventions used to address it. Methodology.
Aug 1, 2017 · In the past, cancer carried a stigma due to its association with death, and this manifested in ways that decreased people’s willingness to discuss cancer--even to the extent that patients’...
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