Abstract
Aim
The aim of this review was to analyse the literature critically and
present the best available evidence related to quality of life (QoL)
instruments that consists of all four subscales of physical,
psychological, social and spiritual, which can be used in the clinical
setting to assess adult patients with cancer on chemotherapy.
Inclusion criteria
This review included randomised control trials and observational
studies without control group related to QoL instruments used for cancer
chemotherapy. The types of participants for this review included all
adults with cancer over the age of 18 years who have undergone
chemotherapy. The QoL instruments for this review included instruments
that consist of all subscales of physical, psychological, social and
spiritual. In order to retrieve QoL instruments that were current and
not outdated, this review included studies reported in the recent 10
years.
Results A total of
3149 references was retrieved during the initial search. Only 13
articles with validation of the QoL instruments that contained all the
four subscales of physical, psychological, social and spiritual were
included in this review. Four QoL instruments were identified. These
include the City of Hope QOL – Ovarian Cancer Tool (QOL-OVCA),
QOL-Breast cancer version (QOL-BC) ........
Conclusion
In this review, there was one article on development of new QoL
instrument, the New India QoL tool, which has comprehensive validity
examinations – the least number of items that may be useful in the
clinical setting but need further psychometric testing in different
settings or languages. The QLI-CV instrument has had comprehensive
intra- and inter-method validation on different languages, different
cultural settings and various types of cancer. However, the instrument
may not be feasible because the method to calculate the QoL score is not
straightforward.
