Perioperative medicine & outcomes
Peri‐operative mental health interventions for surgical oncology patients: a narrative synthesis and meta‐analysis
Authors' conclusion
Psychological and pharmacological interventions are effective at reducing pre-operative anxiety and immediate postoperative depression scores in patients having oncological surgery, but these benefits do not persist postoperatively.
Study context
- Population
- Adults having oncological surgery17 RCTs
- Comparison
- Peri-operative mental health interventions vs comparators
- Outcome
- Anxiety and depression scores
Methodological detailsrandom effects model, vote-counting synthesis, Studies published in last 5 years, identified through EMBASE, All conducted internationally, primarily in Asia
- Random effects model
- Vote-counting synthesis
- Studies published in last 5 years, identified through EMBASE
- All conducted internationally, primarily in Asia
Pooled result
As reported in the abstract
Hedge's g, pre-operative anxiety
−1.03
P = 0.001
n = 429
Hedge's g, postoperative depression at discharge
−0.88
P < 0.001
n = 188
Hedge's g, anxiety at discharge
−1.54
P = 0.08
n = 188; not significant
Further pooled results
Vote-counting synthesis, other time points
- Intervention effects on depression and anxiety scores on POD 3 and on depression scores at 1 week postoperatively; no effect at all other time points
Original publication
Peri‐operative mental health interventions for surgical oncology patients: a narrative synthesis and meta‐analysis. Anaesthesia. Published 8 January 2025. doi:10.
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