Review Article
Arts Therapies for Anxiety, Depression, and Quality of Life in Breast Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
| | Quality assessment | Number of patients | Effect |
Quality |
Importance | | Number of studies | Design | Risk of bias | Inconsistency | Indirectness | Imprecision | Other considerations | Art therapy | Control | Relative
(95% CI) | Absolute |
| | Anxiety (follow-up 0–28 weeks, assessed with STAI, HADS-anxiety) | | 4 | randomized trials | no serious risk of bias | Some inconsistency | no serious indirectness | no serious imprecision | None | 117 | 88 | RR −7.09
(−8.32 to −5.87) | — | ⨁ ⨁⨁
MEDIUM | CRITICAL |
| | Depression (follow-up 0–28 weeks, assessed with HADS, ZSDS, and CES-D) | | 3 | randomized trials | no serious risk of bias | Some inconsistency | no serious indirectness | no serious imprecision | None | 117 | 88 | RR −1.05
(−2.3 to 0.19) | — | ⨁ ⨁⨁
MEDIUM | CRITICAL |
| | Quality of life (follow-up 0–28 weeks, assessed with EORTC, FACTG) | | 3 | randomized trials | no serious risk of bias | Some inconsistency | no serious indirectness | no serious imprecision | none | 117 | 88 | RR 1.89
(−4.77 to 8.56) | — | ⨁ ⨁⨁
MEDIUM | IMPORTANT |
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