Factors influencing health-related quality of life among long-term care residents experiencing pain: a systematic review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pain is highly burdensome, affecting over 30% of long-term care (LTC) residents. Pain significantly reduces residents' health-related quality of life (HRQoL), limits their ability to perform activities of daily living (ADLs), restricts their social activities, and can lead to hopelessness, depression, and unnecessary healthcare costs. Although pain can generally be prevented or treated, eliminating pain may not always be possible, especially when residents have multiple chronic conditions. Therefore, improving the HRQoL of LTC residents with pain is a priority goal. Understanding factors influencing HRQoL of LTC residents with pain is imperative to designing and evaluating targeted interventions that complement pain management to improve residents' HRQoL. However, these

SUBMITTER: Shrestha S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10832087 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature