Quality of life among patients with cancer and their family caregivers in the Sub-Saharan region: A systematic review of quantitative studies.

ABSTRACT: Guided by the World Health Organization quality of life (WHOQOL) framework, this systematic review aimed to examine evidence about the prevalence and severity of QOL-related health problems and their influencing factors in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). We identified eligible publications in English language from PubMed, Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature Plus with Full Text, Embase, APA PsycInfo, Scopus, and African Index Medicus databases. We included quantitative descriptive studies that measured overall and subdomains of QOL as the outcome in adult patients/survivors with cancer in SSA. Twenty-six descriptive cross-sectional studies (27 papers) that were conducted since 1988 in different SSA countries among patients with various types of cancer met our inclusion criter

SUBMITTER: Qan'ir Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10021310 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature