TY - JOUR
T1 - Is there a relationship between positive affect and other dimensions of quality of life in colorectal cancer patients?
AU - Blasco, Tomás
AU - Fernández-Castro, Jordi
AU - Louro, André Cardoso
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - © 2015, Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Murcia. It can be stated from the previous research that positive emo-tions should allow to better health outcomes in sick populations. The aim of the present work is to know the state-of-the-art of how positive affect (PA) relates with quality of life in colorectal cancer (CRC) patients, as well as to give some guidelines to develop more efficacious psychological inter-ventions in CRC patients to enhance positive affect. This review describes a search of published literature from January 2001 to March of 2012 on the Medline, ISI Web of Knowledge, Psycho Inf and Cochrane databases using publications that contain positive emotions, positive affect, health out-comes, quality of life, CRC and cancer. These articles were classified into two groups: a) ―descriptive papers‖ b) ―interventional studies‖. Results from ―descriptive papers‖ suggest that positive affect (PA) was significantly associated with greater levels of general health, better social functioning, benefit finding, positive changes, low depression, less anxiety and greather psychological well-being. PA also increases when different activities are de-veloped. The overall results from interventional studies suggest that the in-terventions described can be recommended for improving patient´s levels of positive affect. The present review offers some suggestions which could be useful for CRC patients.
AB - © 2015, Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Murcia. It can be stated from the previous research that positive emo-tions should allow to better health outcomes in sick populations. The aim of the present work is to know the state-of-the-art of how positive affect (PA) relates with quality of life in colorectal cancer (CRC) patients, as well as to give some guidelines to develop more efficacious psychological inter-ventions in CRC patients to enhance positive affect. This review describes a search of published literature from January 2001 to March of 2012 on the Medline, ISI Web of Knowledge, Psycho Inf and Cochrane databases using publications that contain positive emotions, positive affect, health out-comes, quality of life, CRC and cancer. These articles were classified into two groups: a) ―descriptive papers‖ b) ―interventional studies‖. Results from ―descriptive papers‖ suggest that positive affect (PA) was significantly associated with greater levels of general health, better social functioning, benefit finding, positive changes, low depression, less anxiety and greather psychological well-being. PA also increases when different activities are de-veloped. The overall results from interventional studies suggest that the in-terventions described can be recommended for improving patient´s levels of positive affect. The present review offers some suggestions which could be useful for CRC patients.
KW - Colorectal cancer
KW - Positive emotions
KW - Positive affect
KW - Psychological interventions
KW - Quality of life
UR - https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=5086523
U2 - 10.6018/analesps.31.2.160331
DO - 10.6018/analesps.31.2.160331
M3 - Article
SN - 0212-9728
VL - 31
SP - 404
EP - 413
JO - Anales de Psicologia
JF - Anales de Psicologia
ER -