Assessment Tools to Examine Illness Understanding in Patients with Advanced Cancer: A Systematic Review of Randomized Clinical Trials.

ABSTRACT: The best tools to assess patient illness understanding are unclear. Here, we examined the assessment tools for illness understanding administered in randomized clinical trials (RCTs) involving patients with advanced cancer, how accuracy of illness understanding was assessed, and each tool's level of accuracy. We conducted a systematic review of Ovid MEDLINE, Ovid EMBASE, and Web of Science from database inception to 28 February 2024. We included all RCTs that reported on illness understanding assessments in cancer patients. The assessment measures were classified into five categories: prognostic awareness, health status, curability, treatment intent, and treatment risks/benefits. We extracted the questions, answers, definitions of accuracy, and accuracy rates of each category. The final sa

SUBMITTER: Tu A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11816152 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature