Examining the Development of Information Needs Assessment Questionnaires in Oncology: Protocol for a Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Information needs are one of the most prevalent unmet supportive care needs of those living with cancer, including patients and their informal caregivers. Understanding how existing questionnaires for evaluating information needs have been developed is important for guiding appropriate use and informing future research. A literature review examining how information needs assessment questionnaires for use in the cancer context have been developed, with a specific focus on how questionnaire items have been identified, does not exist.

Objective

This scoping review will examine how questionnaires for assessing the information needs of those living with cancer have been developed with special focus on how patients, informal caregivers, and health care professionals hav

SUBMITTER: Thiessen M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9478820 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature