PhD Scholar, Saveetha University, Chennai, India
*Corresponding author: Sampoornam W PhD (N) Scholar, Saveetha University, Chennai, India, Email-sampoornamwebster@yahoo.in
Online published on 16 January, 2016.
Breast cancer is a major public health concern and the most common cause of cancer-related mortality among women. Stress hasn't definitively been proven to cause cancer; other research has suggested it can play a detrimental role. The damaging effect of stress is on a par with recently documented dangers of taking doubles the risk of breast cancer. Many women who have breast cancer often experience distress. Women with advanced breast cancer who have abnormal daytime levels of cortisol, a hormone released in response to stress are significantly more likely to die sooner than patients with normal levels of the hormone.
The purpose of this systematic review is to identify effective treatment for the increased cortisol level in breast cancer stress.
Randomized clinical trials published between 1996 and 2013 that involved treatments to reduce the cortisol level among stressed breast cancer patients were selected for the systematic review. Jadad scale was used to check the methodological quality. RevMan 5.2 version was used for integrating the study results statistically. Three studies met the selection criteria.
The estimate confirms that the nursing intervention reduces the stress and cortisol level among breast cancer patients.
This Meta analysis supports that nursing intervention plays a very important role in reducing stress marker.
Intervention, Breast cancer, Stress marker, Mental Health Concern, Emotional support, Meta analysis
