Treatment burden in multimorbidity: an integrative review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

People living with multimorbidity experience increased treatment burden, which can result in poor health outcomes. Despite previous efforts to grasp the concept of treatment burden, the treatment burden of people living with multimorbidity has not been thoroughly explored, which may limit our understanding of treatment burden in this population. This study aimed to identify the components, contributing factors, and health outcomes of treatment burden in people with multiple diseases to develop an integrated map of treatment burden experienced by people living with multimorbidity. The second aim of this study is to identify the treatment burden instruments used to evaluate people living with multimorbidity and assess the comprehensiveness of the instruments.

Methods

SUBMITTER: Lee JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11438421 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature