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Quality of Life among Ethiopian Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review of Literatures
BACKGROUND: Assessment of quality of life (QoL) in cancer patients can provide an overall picture of the patient's adaptation to the disease and maintain long-term health and well-being. Determining the QoL in cancer patients could help with better care and could be as prognostic as medical fac...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10559689/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37808099 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23779608231202691 |
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author | Muhamed, Ahmed Nuru Chekole, Bogale Tafesse, Fikremariam Endeshaw Dessie, Getnet Bantie, Berihun Habtu, Bisrat Fikadu Shemsu, Abdumejid Mustefa |
author_facet | Muhamed, Ahmed Nuru Chekole, Bogale Tafesse, Fikremariam Endeshaw Dessie, Getnet Bantie, Berihun Habtu, Bisrat Fikadu Shemsu, Abdumejid Mustefa |
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description | BACKGROUND: Assessment of quality of life (QoL) in cancer patients can provide an overall picture of the patient's adaptation to the disease and maintain long-term health and well-being. Determining the QoL in cancer patients could help with better care and could be as prognostic as medical factors and the survival benefit that pharmacological treatment could provide. The main objective of this review was to determine the prevalence of QoL among Ethiopian adult cancer patients. METHODS: A systematic review was conducted using the “Preferred Reporting Results of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses” guidelines. Databases such as PubMed/Medline, CINAHL, AMED, Embase, the Cochrane Library, ScienceDirect, World Health Organization's Hinari portal, and African Journals Online databases were searched from January 2022 to June 2022. Google, Google Scholar, and university repositories were used to access unpublished studies. Two reviewers independently screened the data using a standardized data extraction format and appraised their quality using the Newcastle–Ottawa Scale. RESULTS: In this review, 10 studies were included. The prevalence of poor QoL ranged from 52 to 89.6. The physical, role, social, and emotional functioning were the most affected domains of QoL and have been significantly associated with QoL. Financial difficulty was the most important predictor of QoL among Ethiopian cancer patients. Pain, dyspnea, nausea, vomiting, and poor appetite were also reported as predictors of QoL. Low income, lower educational status, unmarried status, underweight, anxiety, and depression, advanced stage of cancer, patients with ≤2 cycles of chemotherapy, and the presence of comorbid diseases were significantly correlated with QoL. CONCLUSIONS: The QoL of an Ethiopian cancer patient was low. Quality of life assessments, appropriate symptom management, integration of psycho-oncology care, and providing economic support shall be considered to improve their QoL. |
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spelling | pubmed-105596892023-10-08 Quality of Life among Ethiopian Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review of Literatures Muhamed, Ahmed Nuru Chekole, Bogale Tafesse, Fikremariam Endeshaw Dessie, Getnet Bantie, Berihun Habtu, Bisrat Fikadu Shemsu, Abdumejid Mustefa SAGE Open Nurs Review Article BACKGROUND: Assessment of quality of life (QoL) in cancer patients can provide an overall picture of the patient's adaptation to the disease and maintain long-term health and well-being. Determining the QoL in cancer patients could help with better care and could be as prognostic as medical factors and the survival benefit that pharmacological treatment could provide. The main objective of this review was to determine the prevalence of QoL among Ethiopian adult cancer patients. METHODS: A systematic review was conducted using the “Preferred Reporting Results of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses” guidelines. Databases such as PubMed/Medline, CINAHL, AMED, Embase, the Cochrane Library, ScienceDirect, World Health Organization's Hinari portal, and African Journals Online databases were searched from January 2022 to June 2022. Google, Google Scholar, and university repositories were used to access unpublished studies. Two reviewers independently screened the data using a standardized data extraction format and appraised their quality using the Newcastle–Ottawa Scale. RESULTS: In this review, 10 studies were included. The prevalence of poor QoL ranged from 52 to 89.6. The physical, role, social, and emotional functioning were the most affected domains of QoL and have been significantly associated with QoL. Financial difficulty was the most important predictor of QoL among Ethiopian cancer patients. Pain, dyspnea, nausea, vomiting, and poor appetite were also reported as predictors of QoL. Low income, lower educational status, unmarried status, underweight, anxiety, and depression, advanced stage of cancer, patients with ≤2 cycles of chemotherapy, and the presence of comorbid diseases were significantly correlated with QoL. CONCLUSIONS: The QoL of an Ethiopian cancer patient was low. Quality of life assessments, appropriate symptom management, integration of psycho-oncology care, and providing economic support shall be considered to improve their QoL. SAGE Publications 2023-10-06 /pmc/articles/PMC10559689/ /pubmed/37808099 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23779608231202691 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Review Article Muhamed, Ahmed Nuru Chekole, Bogale Tafesse, Fikremariam Endeshaw Dessie, Getnet Bantie, Berihun Habtu, Bisrat Fikadu Shemsu, Abdumejid Mustefa Quality of Life among Ethiopian Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review of Literatures |
title | Quality of Life among Ethiopian Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review of Literatures |
title_full | Quality of Life among Ethiopian Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review of Literatures |
title_fullStr | Quality of Life among Ethiopian Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review of Literatures |
title_full_unstemmed | Quality of Life among Ethiopian Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review of Literatures |
title_short | Quality of Life among Ethiopian Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review of Literatures |
title_sort | quality of life among ethiopian cancer patients: a systematic review of literatures |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10559689/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37808099 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23779608231202691 |
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