Castro Rita, Pieramico Sonia, Aguiar Sandra, Bismarck Francisca, Ferreira Diana, Tavares Inês, Carvalho Prof. Joana, Gomes Prof. Ana Q, Nobre Prof. Pedro

(321) CONTRIBUTIONS OF DYADIC APPROACHES TO THE PSYCHOSOCIAL ADAPTATION OF COUPLES TO PROSTATE CANCER: A SCOPING REVIEW PROTOCOL

  • Urology
  • Reproductive Medicine
  • Endocrinology
  • Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
  • Psychiatry and Mental health
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Abstract Objectives Prostate cancer is the second most prevalent cancer diagnosed in men around the world. The available treatments have negative side effects on the mental and sexual health of patients, but also their partners. There is evidence of the relevance of taking dyadic approaches to the study of relational stress that chronic diseases bring to couples’ dynamics. Although, less is known about the application of dyadic approaches to the psychosocial adaptation to prostate cancer. Despite the recent increase of studies conducted with both patients and partners, there are different approaches used. The goal of this scoping review is to map and summarize the evidence of existing dyadic studies that examine the psychosocial adaptation of couples to prostate cancer. Methods To this end, we are conducting a systematic search of studies published from 2005 to September 2022 on electronic databases (Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, Cochrane, and EBSCOHost), with the following search terms “prostat* cancer” OR “prostat* carcinoma” OR “prostat* tumor” OR “prostat* adenocarcinoma” OR “prostat* neoplasia” OR “pca” AND “dyad*” OR “couple*” OR “partner*” OR “spouse” OR “caregiver*” OR “APIM” OR “Actor Partner Interdependence Model” OR “Actor Partner” OR “Actor Partner Model” AND “psychosocial” OR “pychology*” OR “impact” OR “mental health” OR “sexual health” OR “adaptati*”. This review follows the PRISMA guidelines. Results This work will give, researchers on prostate cancer and professionals working on oncological care, an overview of the potential use of dyadic approaches to help with the psychosocial adaptation of couples’ mental and sexual health during prostate cancer. Conclusions The present work strengthens the need to do more research on how couples adapt together to prostate cancer diagnosis and treatments and to raise awareness among professionals to include both patients and partners and their needs in the interventions to promote mental and sexual health recovery after the prostate cancer journey. Conflicts of Interest All the authors declare no known conflict of interest. This project is funded by Horizonte Europa (NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000057) and by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (2022.11670.BD.).

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