Health-related quality of life among patients with advanced cancer: an integrative review

Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP

Maria Eliane Moreira Freire¹  Namie Okino Sawada¹  Inácia Sátiro Xavier De França¹  Solange Fátima Geraldo Da Costa¹  Cecília Danielle Bezerra Oliveira¹ 

关键词: Neoplasms;    Terminally ill;    Quality of life;    Oncologic nursing;    Review;    Neoplasias;    Enfermo terminal;    Calidad de vida;    Enfermería oncológica;    Revisión;    Neoplasias;    Doente terminal;    Qualidade de vida;    Enfermagem oncológica;    Revisão;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0080-6234201400002000022

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

This integrative literature review aimed to characterize scientific articles on health-related quality of life – HRQoL – among patients with advanced cancer from national and international literature, and summarize those factors evidenced in the literature that contributed to the improvement or worsening of HRQoL among patients with advanced cancer. The search for materials was conducted in the following databases: CINAHL, EMBASE, PubMed, SciELO and LILACS. Among the 21 articles in the sample, 13 showed an improvement of HRQoL among patients with advanced cancer related to the development of physical, emotional and spiritual interventions. In eight studies, we identified predictive symptoms of low HRQoL, such as pain, fatigue, sleep disorders, depression, nutritional changes, and others. The results showed that clinical manifestations, which many times were inherent in cancer, such as factors that can lower patients’ HRQoL, while physical, psychological and spiritual benefits resulting from therapeutic interventions may promote its improvement.


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