A systematic review on quality of life of esophageal cancer patients in China
10.3760/cma.j.cn112338-20191104-00782
- VernacularTitle:中国食管癌患者生活质量研究系统综述
- Author:
Juan ZHU
1
;
Shanrui MA
;
Xinqing LI
;
Wenqiang WEI
Author Information
1. 国家癌症中心/国家肿瘤临床医学研究中心/中国医学科学院北京协和医学院肿瘤医院肿瘤登记办公室，北京 100021
- Keywords:
Esophageal cancer;
Quality of life;
Systematic review
- From:
Chinese Journal of Epidemiology
2020;41(9):1536-1541
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective:To systematically review the quality of life of esophageal cancer patients in China.Methods:Based on CNKI, Wanfang, PubMed and EMbase database, related articles published from January 2009 to August 2019 were systematically retrieved. We extracted the basic information, synthesized and summarized related instruments evaluation results.Results:A total of 127 studies were included (121 in Chinese, 6 in English), involving 26 provinces, of which 79 studies were published in the past 5 years and only 4 studies were multicenter study. More than half of included studies had a sample size of <150 cases (72 studies). Most studies were from the medical care and nursing field (58 studies) and were about the evaluation and comparison of treatments and medicine (40 studies). Six specific tools, including most commonly used Core Quality of Life Questionnaire (QLQ-C30) reported in 74 studies, 4 generic instruments, including most commonly used 36-item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) reported in 17 studies and several self-designed questionnaires, were used. All the instruments focused on physical, physiological and social dimensions, but the specific contents and numbers of items were different. The index of quality of life used were dimension scores and total scores, and only 2 studies were about the health-related utility of esophageal cancer patients.Conclusions:In China, the research on the quality of life of esophageal cancer patients increased rapidly over the past decade, but most were single-center and small sample studies. The esophageal cancer-specific QLQ-C30 and generic SF-36 were the most commonly used instruments in the studies. The medical care and nursing and evaluation of treatments were the main concerns, but the research on health utility scores of esophageal cancer was still limited in China.
