OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Psychosocial Oncology is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The invisible barrier: Providing end of life support to pediatric oncology families during COVID-19	32
Course of social support and associations with distress after partial laryngectomy	25
The relationship between post-traumatic stress and negative emotions in patients with breast cancer: the mediating role of emotion regulation	20
The last cartwheel	15
The effectiveness of live music intervention on psychological distress among adolescent and young adult patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation	15
Being a physician and caring for a parent who has an illness during the pandemic¹	12
Psychosocial collaboration fosters connection in times of isolation	11
Voices from the front line: Supporting staff during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Appraisals of cancer, religious/spiritual coping, and hope in patients with colorectal cancer	10
‘Mums are sacred, and mums don’t die’: A mixed-methods study of adult child–parent dyadic relationships at the end of life	10
Subjective well-being among Iranian breast cancer patients: Exploring the influential role of psychological capital	10
Encouragement for the weary soul during the COVID pandemic	10
A descriptive study of the connections between social risk and healthcare utilization with supportive oncology care	9
COVID-19 and psychosocial cancer care	9
Cancer care for people with significant mental health difficulties (SMHD) - patient perspectives	9
“I don’t have a choice but to keep getting up and doing the things that protect her”: The informal caregiver’s adaptation to the cancer diagnosis	8
Expressive writing to address distress in hospitalized adults with acute myeloid leukemia: a pilot randomized clinical trial	8
Psychological processing among caregivers of allogeneic bone marrow transplant recipients: Qualitative findings from a longitudinal study	7
Culturally-tailored survivorship care planning for rural Latina breast cancer patients: a pilot study	7
A quality improvement project to optimize access to psychosocial care for cancer survivors who experience fear of recurrence	7
Cancer survivors’ perceived vulnerability to COVID-19 and impacts on cognitive, affective, and behavioral responses to the pandemic	7
Feasibility and acceptability of a group-mediated exercise intervention for gynecological cancer survivors	6
Adaptation and feasibility of the Swedish Promoting Resilience in Stress Management intervention targeting adolescents and young adults newly diagnosed with cancer	6
Stress levels and coping strategies among Jordanian parents caring for newly diagnosed children with leukemia: A cross sectional descriptive correlational study	6
Effects of a nursing care program based on the theory of human caring on women diagnosed with gynecologic cancer: a pilot study from Turkey	6

Intervention to reduce age bias in medical students’ decision making for the treatment of older women with breast cancer: A novel approach to bias training	6
Effects of smartphone interventions on cancer knowledge and coping among Latina breast cancer survivors: Secondary analysis of a pilot randomized controlled trial	5
An intervention module for caregivers of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)	5
Coping strategies and psychosocial resources among women living with metastatic breast cancer: A qualitative study	5
The effect of mindfulness and psychological capital on mental health of breast cancer patients: Based on polynomial regression and response surface analysis	5
The effects of music therapy on peripherally inserted central catheter in hospitalized children with leukemia	5
Psychosocial distress and psychosocial resources in couples facing non-melanoma skin cancers and malignant melanoma	5
‘It can be difficult to find the right words’: Parents’ needs when breaking news and communicating to children with cancer and their siblings	4
Qualitative results from a randomized pilot study of eHealth Mindful Movement and Breathing to improve gynecologic cancer surgery outcomes	4
Social support experiences of hispanic/latino parents of childhood cancer survivors in a safety-net hospital: a qualitative study	4
“If I wasn’t in a rural area, I would definitely have more support”: social needs identified by rural cancer caregivers and hospital staff	4
Association between positive affect, flourishing, quality of life, and psychological distress in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation	4
Examining the roles of fatalism, stigma, and risk perception on cancer information seeking and avoidance among Chinese adults in Hong Kong	4
Solution-focused brief therapy for adolescent and young adult cancer patients in China: a pilot randomized controlled trial	4
Memories of adult survivors of childhood cancer: Diagnosis, coping, and long-term influence of cancer	4
Feasibility and acceptability of a telehealth behavior change intervention for promoting physical activity and fruit and vegetable consumption among rural-living young adult cancer survivors	4
Participants’ perceptions support the coexistence of benefits and burdens of cancer clinical trial participation	4
Correction	4
Social cognition and occupational reintegration in primary central nervous system lymphoma long-term survivors: a secondary analysis of a combined data set	4
How do I work with fertility loss as a pregnant therapist? A case study and discussion about pregnancy self-disclosure in the oncology setting	4
Social determinants of health, psychological distress, and caregiver burden among informal cancer caregivers of cancer survivors during treatment	4
Associations of financial hardship with suicidal ideation among bereaved cancer caregivers	4
Disparities in fertility preservation discussions among sexual and gender minority cancer patients and their cancer care providers	4
Mediating role of resilience between family functioning and quality of life in patients with advanced colorectal cancer	4
Understanding the role of parents’ information sharing and withholding on emerging and young adults’ caregiving and coping during their parents’ advanced cancer	4
Prevalence and risk factors of self-reported financial toxicity in cancer survivors: A systematic review and meta-analyses	4
Psychosocial impact of the COVID-19 outbreak and lockdown on Spanish oncological patients: a quantitative approach	3
The Adolescent and Young Adult Needs Assessment & Service Bridge (NA-SB): A single-arm feasibility pilot study	3
Collaborative depression care sensitive to the needs of underserved patients with cancer: Feasibility, acceptability and outcomes	3
The effects of exercise on anxiety and depression in adults with cancer: A meta-review of meta-analyses	3
Becoming and being a parent with an inherited predisposition to diffuse gastric cancer: A qualitative study of young adults with a CDH1 pathogenic variant	3
Lessons learned from a social worker’s approach to advance care planning discussions with Chinese-immigrant oncology outpatients	3
Correlates of multicaregiving and singular caregiving among cancer caregivers and associations with caregiver well-being	3
Depression, anxiety, & loneliness among cancer survivors during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
The experience of women in a phase II trial of hypnosis and progressive muscle relaxation for body image: informing future research questions	3
Experiences of women with ovarian cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining intolerance of uncertainty and fear of COVID-19 in relation to psychological distress	3
The interaction of family functioning and disease- and treatment-related factors on quality of life for children after cancer	3
Scoping review of experiences of sexual minority women treated for breast cancer	3
The role of emotion regulation through mindfulness in oncological patients: A pilot study	3
Patient-reported discrimination among limited-resourced cancer survivors: a brief report	3
Appearance investment, coping strategies, and psychosocial adjustment in male patients with head and neck cancer	3
The relationships between loneliness and mental and physical health are moderated by the tendency for interpersonal victimhood: A study of young adult cancer patients	3
A conceptual framework of the psychosocial elements that should be assessed in candidates for hematopoietic cell transplant: Social workers’ and psychologists’ perspectives	3
Cancer patient’s attitudes of using medicinal cannabis for sleep	3
Evaluating an engaging and coach-assisted online cognitive behavioral therapy for depression among adolescent and young adult cancer survivors: A pilot feasibility trial	3
Incorporating the Distress Thermometer into preoperative vital signs in patients undergoing ambulatory oncology surgery: a pilot feasibility study	3
Group psychodrama for children with leukemia: A brief report	2
A powerful safety net: Social support moderates the association of quality of life deficits with suicidal ideation in long-term childhood cancer survivors	2
Identifying the palliative care needs of patients and families in gynecologic surgical oncology: A scoping review	2
Anxiety trajectories among cancer survivors during the COVID-19 pandemic	2

What do Rob Base, DJ EZ Rock and Thich Nhat Hanh have in common? (and how does this apply to our work with cancer patients?!?)	2
Behind and in front of our masks. A new era in communication with our patients	2
Salary and student loan debt for oncology social workers: Findings from the oncology social work competencies, opportunities, roles and expertise (CORE) survey	2
Cognitive performance and mortality among patients receiving autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant	2
Role of self-efficacy for pain management and pain catastrophizing in the relationship between pain severity and depressive symptoms in women with breast cancer and pain	2
Trauma Informed Care and early distress identification in oncology settings	2
Scanxiety in survivors of pancreatic cancer	2
COVID clarity	2
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of A Life Interrupted	2
Relationship between spirituality and depression among patients with malignant cancer at a selected tertiary care Institute - A study from North India	2
End of life care during the COVID-19 pandemic: Professional influence on a personal loss	2
Detection of psychosocial distress in cancer patients: A survey of Mexican oncologists	2
Examining the role of pets in cancer survivors’ physical and mental wellbeing	2
Coping with breast cancer together: Challenging topics for mothers and their adolescent-young adult (AYA) daughters	2
Creative recovery: Narrative creativity mitigates identity distress among young adults with cancer	2
Sedentary time transitions and associations with quality of life in cancer survivors during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Telehealth: only a click away	2
“Like pouring salt in a wound”: A qualitative exploration of the consequences of unmet housing needs for cancer patients and survivors in New York City	2
Perceived trajectory of psychological and physical states after breast cancer: An optimistic perception	2
Experiencing the COVID-19 health crisis: Quality of life of young to mid-life hematology patients	2
Screening for distress in pediatric cancer survivors: A systematic comparison of one-step and two-step strategies to minimize detection errors	2
Sleep-related challenges and family functioning in children and adolescents previously treated for craniopharyngioma	2
Evaluating the Sleep Treatment Education Program (STEP-1): A single-session educational workshop addressing insomnia in cancer survivors	1
The caregiving cancer patient: a new expanding category among the cancer population?	1
Finding my way home: Ambiguous loss reconceptualized to bridge the conversion from in-person therapy to teletherapy during COVID-19	1
Cancer, COVID-19, and the Black community	1
Online cognitive-behavioral group intervention for young adult survivors of childhood cancer: a pilot study	1
The impact of caregiver anxiety/depression symptoms and family functioning on child quality of life during pediatric cancer treatment: From diagnosis to 6 months	1
Social robotics as an adjuvant during the hospitalization process in pediatric oncology patients	1
How is my child doing – parental understanding of their children when a parent has cancer	1
Body image, sexual activity, and side effects of treatments across the first year after surgery in women facing breast cancer: The influence of attachment insecurity	1
Moderators of interdependent psychological distress in cancer survivor-caregiver dyads	1
The influence of patient-related factors on the frequency and duration of psycho-oncological sessions in a university cancer center	1
Symptom and needs assessment screening in oncology patients: Alternate outreach methods during COVID-19	1
The mediating role of caregiver hope in relations among caregivers’ coping and emotional socialization beliefs in pediatric oncology	1
Correction	1
Prospective assessment of anxiety among pediatric oncology patients and their caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic a cohort study	1
Did COVID-19 change the interventions provided by oncology social workers in the epicenter of the pandemic? A natural experiment	1
Effect of inhalation aromatherapy on physical and psychological problems in cancer patients: Systematic review and Meta-analysis	1
“Empathy without sympathy”: An analysis of support-related preferences among young adult cancer survivors	1
Adverse childhood experiences and psychotropic medication prescription among cancer patients	1
Cognitive impairment in young adults after cancer treatment: A descriptive correlational study on levels and associations with disease-related, psychological, and lifestyle factors	1
Patterns of toxic stress and trauma for pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT): creating a model of responsive intervention	1
Capturing the financial hardship of cancer in military adolescent and young adult patients: A conceptual framework	1
A randomized pilot of eHealth mindful movement and breathing to improve gynecologic surgery outcomes	1
Implementation of evidence-based psychosocial care in six pediatric oncology units across Pakistan	1
Perceptions of Japanese and Dutch women with early breast cancer about monitoring their quality of life	1
The patient and caregiver experience of CAR T-cell therapy: A qualitative analysis	1
Covid-19 pandemic: Will telemedicine be a new standard for mental health in cancer care?	1
Reel reflections: the role of entertainment media narratives in coping among young adult cancer survivors	1
Survey of families’ psychosocial needs in the context of pediatric cancer: a first step toward the participatory development of a group intervention	1
Cultural and linguistic adaptation of a telephone-based cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) intervention to treat depression and anxiety in Hispanic cancer survivors	1
Feasibility of implementing a culturally and linguistically adapted telephone-based cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) intervention for depression and anxiety with Hispanic and Latino cancer survivors	1
Subjective cognitive functioning in patients with cancer: A network approach	1