Health education, symptom management, and rehabilitation-focused e-health interventions are among the most effective digital strategies for improving quality of life among patients with cancer, according to a recent meta-analysis.
A team of researchers from China conducted the study and published their findings in Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing. They highlighted that preserving quality of life is an “essential component” of oncology nursing, yet the “optimal content and delivery format” of e-health-based nursing interventions to facilitate quality of life improvements remains understudied.
Two investigators “independently screened studies and extracted data” from randomized controlled trials across six databases to inform the study. Medline, Embase, Web of Science, CINAHL, the Cochrane Central Register…