Parents of children with cancer are prone to psychosocial distress, yet little is known about intervention response among diverse parents. Our systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated the efficacy of psychosocial interventions on anxiety and depression among parents of children with cancer and explored race and/or ethnicity differences in the efficacy of these interventions. Twenty articles met inclusion. The aggregate effect size on anxiety (−0.01, 95% CI: −0.95, 0.93, p = .97) and depression (−0.56, 95% CI: −1.65, 0.54, p = .32) showed micro to medium effects, with larger negative effect sizes indicating that anxiety and depression scores after treatment were lower for parents in intervention group as compared to control group. Neither aggregate effect size was statistically significantly different from zero. Due to underrepresentation of minorities, we could not perform subgroup or moderator analyses. Several efficacious psychosocial interventions were found to reduce parental anxiety. Future studies to examine psychosocial interventions in minority parents are warranted.

中文翻译：

---

对癌症儿童父母的心理社会干预进行系统评价和荟萃分析评估，探索性关注少数群体的结果

患有癌症的孩子的父母容易产生心理困扰，但对不同父母的干预反应知之甚少。我们的系统回顾和荟萃分析评估了心理社会干预措施对癌症儿童父母焦虑和抑郁的疗效，并探讨了这些干预措施疗效的种族和/或种族差异。20 篇文章符合纳入标准。对焦虑 (-0.01, 95% CI: -0.95, 0.93, p  = .97) 和抑郁 (-0.56, 95% CI: -1.65, 0.54, p = .32) 显示出微观到中等影响，较大的负面影响表明干预组父母治疗后的焦虑和抑郁评分低于对照组。两者的总效应量都没有统计学上显着不同于零。由于少数族裔的代表性不足，我们无法进行亚组或调节分析。一些有效的社会心理干预被发现可以减少父母的焦虑。未来的研究来检查少数族裔父母的心理社会干预是有必要的。