Personal goal-setting among women living with breast cancer: protocol for a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Breast cancer and its treatment can have many physical and psychological effects on affected women. Women's personal goals may provide insight into their priorities and motivations in the context of breast cancer. Incorporating personal goal-setting into support and care interventions may have an effect on psychological well-being. This protocol describes our scoping review methods, the aim of which is to examine and map the existing evidence on personal goal-setting among women with a breast cancer diagnosis.

Methods

Our scoping review will search for published, full-length articles, where personal goal-setting is a major component of the study, and the study population is females with breast cancer. MEDLINE, PsycInfo, CINAHL, EMBASE, the Cochrane Library, and AM

SUBMITTER: Chow A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6114874 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature