• Medicine · Dec 2020

    Psychometric properties of quality of life questionnaires for patients with breast cancer-related lymphedema: A protocol for a systematic review.

    • Estu Meilani, Asfarina Zanudin, and Nordin Nor Azlin Mohd NAM.
    • Physiotherapy Programme, Centre for Rehabilitation and Special Needs Studies, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia.
    • Medicine (Baltimore). 2020 Dec 24; 99 (52): e23897.

    BackgroundBreast-cancer related lymphedema (BCRL) is a common condition among breast cancer survivors that could impact the quality of life (QoL) of patients. Exploring the QoL of the patients with BCRL using valid and reliable QoL is crucial to capture the status of this important aspect hence appropriate intervention could be implement to patient. However, so far no scientific review is available, which reports the psychometric properties of the QoL questionnaires used in BCRL. The purpose of this systematic review is to comprehensively assess the psychometric properties of QoL questionnaires in patients with BCRL.MethodsWe will perform comprehensive searches of published studies in electronic databases such as Medline (via Ovid), EBSCOhost, PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science by using the following search terms: "quality of life"; "breast cancer"; "upper limb"; "lymphedema"; "questionnaire"; and "measurement properties." Only full-text articles in English language are included. Two reviewers will independently conduct the article selection, data extraction, and quality assessment. Any possible conflict between the 2 reviewers is going to be solved with the help of a third reviewer. The Consensus-based Standards for the Selection of Health Measurement Instrument (COSMIN) checklist and manual will be used to assess the selected study quality.ResultsThis review will provide an updated overview of available lymphedema-specific questionnaires used in BCRL population and then recommend the most valid and reliable QoL questionnaire for clinical and research use in patients with BCRL.ConclusionThis review may help the clinician and researcher to find an updated overview of various questionnaires used to assess BCRL patients' QoL.Ethics And DisseminationThis review will use data from published studies. Therefore, ethical approval is not required prior to this review. The results of this review will be published in a peer-reviewed journal or presented at conferences.Study RegistrationOSF osf.io/8xwym.Copyright © 2020 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.

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