Instruments measuring quality of life of people with chronic wounds: a scoping review protocol
International Journal of Development Research
Instruments measuring quality of life of people with chronic wounds: a scoping review protocol
Received 17th October, 2019; Received in revised form 10th November, 2019; Accepted 08th December, 2019; Published online 29th January, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Janislei Soares Dantas et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Objective: Map the types and details of instruments used in the assessment health-related quality of life (HRQoL) available to people with chronic wounds. Materials and Methods: systematic scoping review study will follow the guidelines of the Joanna Briggs Institute and the conformities recommended by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation. The databases MEDLINE (PubMed), CINAHL (EBSCO), Web of Science and Scopus will be used for the search. The inclusion criteria considered will be articles that include people with chronic wounds, of any etiology, above 18 years old, and from various health care contexts, that utilize, critique or compare specific measurement instruments of health-related quality of life for this population. Online studies, in any language and without temporal, geographic or cultural limitations will be examined. Conclusion: This protocol document describes the process of conducting a systematicscoping review. The review study developed from this protocol contributed to summarize as the best results found in the literature on the instruments currently available to measure HRQoL in people with chronic injuries.
