AUTHOR=Chan Alex Siu Wing , Leung Lok Man , Li Jane Siu Fan , Ho Jacqueline Mei Chi , Tam Hon Lon , Hsu Wing Leung , Iu April Nicole On Sang , Tang Patrick Ming Kuen , Yan Elsie 

TITLE=Impacts of psychological wellbeing with HIV/AIDS and cancer among sexual and gender minorities: A systematic review and meta-analysis

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Public Health

VOLUME=10

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.912980

DOI=10.3389/fpubh.2022.912980

ISSN=2296-2565

ABSTRACT=<sec><title>Background</title><p>The agony and economic strain of cancer and HIV/AIDS therapies severely impact patients' psychological wellbeing. Meanwhile, sexual minorities experience discrimination and mental illness. LGBT individuals with cancer and HIV/AIDS play two roles. It is important to understand and examine this groups mental wellbeing.</p></sec><sec><title>Objective</title><p>The purpose of this study is to synthesize current studies on the impact of HIV/AIDS and cancer on LGBT patients' psychological wellbeing.</p></sec><sec><title>Methods</title><p>This research uses a systematic literature review at first and later stage a meta-analysis was run on the same review. In this study, data from Google academic and Web of Science has been used to filter literature. PRISMA 2020 Flow Diagram seeks research on LGBT cancer and HIV/AIDS patients. The above sites yielded 370 related papers, some of which were removed due to age or inaccuracy. Finally, meta-analyses was done on 27 HIV/AIDS and 33 cancer patients's analyse.</p></sec><sec><title>Results</title><p>The research included 9,898 LGBT cancer sufferers with AIDS and 14,465 cancer sufferers with HIV/AIDS. Using meta-analysis, we discovered the gap in psychological wellbeing scores between HIV/AIDS LGBT and non-LGBT groups ranged from −10.86 to 15.63. The overall score disparity between the HIV/AIDS LGBT and non-LGBT groups was 1.270 (95% CI = 0.990–1.560, <italic>Z</italic> = 86.58, <italic>P</italic> &lt; 0.1). The disparity in psychological wellbeing scores between cancer LGBT group and general group varies from −8.77 to 20.94 in the 34 papers examined in this study. Overall, the psychological wellbeing score disparity between the cancer LGBT subset and the general group was 12.48 (95% CI was 10.05–14.92, Test <italic>Z</italic>-value was 268.40, <italic>P</italic>-value was &lt;0.1).</p></sec><sec><title>Conclusion</title><p>Inflammation and fibrosis in HIV/AIDS and cancer sufferers adversely affect their psychological wellbeing.</p></sec>