Personal goal-setting among women living with breast cancer: protocol for a scoping review.
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ABSTRACT: Background
Breast cancer and its treatment can have many physical and psychological effects on affected women. Women's personal goals may provide insight into their priorities and motivations in the context of breast cancer. Incorporating personal goal-setting into support and care interventions may have an effect on psychological well-being. This protocol describes our scoping review methods, the aim of which is to examine and map the existing evidence on personal goal-setting among women with a breast cancer diagnosis.Methods
Our scoping review will search for published, full-length articles, where personal goal-setting is a major component of the study, and the study population is females with breast cancer. MEDLINE, PsycInfo, CINAHL, EMBASE, the Cochrane Library, and AMED databases will be searched. Two independent reviewers will conduct all screening and extract data. Descriptive information about the studies, participants, any interventions, measurement tools, outcomes, and results will be reported.Discussion
The results from this review will chart the literature, contributing to optimizing the incorporation of personal goal-setting approaches into effective interventions for the care and support of women with breast cancer.
SUBMITTER: Chow A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6114874 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Personal goal-setting among women living with breast cancer: protocol for a scoping review.
Chow Andrea A Presseau Justin J Perelman Iris I Sikora Lindsey L Fergusson Dean D
Systematic reviews 20180828 1
<h4>Background</h4>Breast cancer and its treatment can have many physical and psychological effects on affected women. Women's personal goals may provide insight into their priorities and motivations in the context of breast cancer. Incorporating personal goal-setting into support and care interventions may have an effect on psychological well-being. This protocol describes our scoping review methods, the aim of which is to examine and map the existing evidence on personal goal-setting among wom ...[more]
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