This systematic review will evaluate the experience of hope in adult patients with advanced chronic diseases other than cancer, transitioning toward end-of-life. The review will also evaluate the experience of hope in informal caregivers caring for adult patients with advanced chronic diseases other than cancer as they transition toward end-of-life.
Hope is an important resource that assists patients and informal caregivers to deal with difficult and complex situations, such as living with advanced chronic disease.
The review will include studies written in English, French, and Portuguese exploring hope. Qualitative studies focusing on adult patients with advanced chronic diseases other than cancer and/or informal caregivers will be considered. Studies with children as patients or parents as caregivers will be excluded.
The review will search Embase, MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Web of Science, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, DART-Europe E-theses Portal, and Google Scholar. The search will be conducted without date restrictions. Articles will be assessed against the inclusion criteria by two independent reviewers. Data will be extracted using a standard tool. The extracted findings will be synthesized using the meta-aggregation approach through assembling and categorizing data.
PROSPERO CRD42021266487.