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Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life / Occupational Therapy Practice and Research · Review
Physical & Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics · September 7, 2026
Encouraging direction, but not yet definitive.
This systematic review and meta-analysis identified occupational therapy interventions as having potential to enhance physical and psychosocial well-being and support functional outcomes in children undergoing cancer treatment. The evidence is suggestive but incomplete in the reported excerpt, with a p-value threshold mentioned (≤0.04) but without accompanying effect sizes, confidence intervals, or details of pooled analyses.
Systematic review and meta-analysis. Studies of occupational therapy interventions in children with cancer reporting physical, psychosocial, physical activity, or health-related quality of life outcomes. Intervention: Occupational therapy interventions. Compared with: Comparators not specified in excerpt.
OT interventions have potential to enhance physical and psychosocial well-being in children with cancer Functional outcomes supported by OT during cancer treatment Statistical significance threshold reported at p ≤ 0.04, though specific outcome comparisons not detailed in excerpt
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Occupational therapy may be considered as part of supportive care for pediatric cancer patients to address physical function, psychosocial well-being, and quality of life, though clinicians should await more detailed effect estimates and outcome-specific guidance.
Systematic review and meta-analysis of occupational therapy in pediatric cancer showing potential benefit across multiple domains, but with incomplete reported effect sizes and heterogeneous study quality limiting definitive conclusions.
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Occupational therapy may be considered as part of supportive care for pediatric cancer patients to address physical function, psychosocial well-being, and quality of life, though clinicians should await more detailed effect estimates and outcome-specific guidance.
Graded across the dimensions that decide whether you should act, each from what the source actually supports. There is no single score, and where a dimension was not assessed it says so.
AIM: To examine the effects of occupational therapy (OT) interventions on physical, psychosocial, physical activity, and health-related quality of life outcomes in children with cancer. METHODS: This systematic review and meta-analysis followed the PRISMA guidelines. The eight databases searched were Academic Search Complete, CINAHL Complete, MasterFILE Complete, PubMed, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection, SPORTDiscus, MEDLINE, and ProQuest. Reference lists of relevant articles were hand-searched, and the methodological quality of each study was assessed using the Cochrane Risk of Bias 2 tool for randomized controlled trials (RCTs). RESULTS: ≤ 0.04). CONCLUSION: OT interventions have the potential to enhance physical and psychosocial well-being and support functional outcomes in children undergoing cancer treatment. Future research should examine interventions by specific cancer types and occupation-based outcomes, such as daily living skills.
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