Competencies of family caregivers to care for oncology outpatients in the light of the grounded theory: protocol for a systematic review

Abstract

The search strategy will include only terms relating to the research question. For this review, empirical studies of a qualitative approach, focused on the necessary competencies to the family caregiver of oncology patient undergoing outpatient chemotherapy, will be considered. The search strategy for the CINAHL Complete database will be made available in the published protocol, and the search terms will be adapted for use with other bibliographic databases in combination with database-specific filters, where these are available. All the selected studies use the grounded theory methodology. Languages will be restricted to English, Spanish and Portuguese, and articles published between January 2006 and December 2018 will be eligible for inclusion. Near the final analysis, the searches will be re-run to identify new studies for inclusion.