Department of Health Information Management, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Students' Scientific Research Center (SSRC), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
BMJ Open. 2022 Nov 30;12(11):e066550. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-066550.
Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide. In addition, it accounted for approximately 10 million deaths in 2020 alone. Information and communication technologies have great potential for improving health education and communication. Social media is one of the technologies that can help patients with cancer and healthcare providers communicate and provide educational information. Social media are increasingly being used for health promotion and behaviour change. This is a protocol of systematic review to identify the effect of social media interventions on the education and communication among patients affected by cancer. This study aims to reveal the steps of conducting research that systematically reviews all studies for the specific objective. This study aims to examine the social media interventions to improve awareness and knowledge about the disease for patients with cancer and improve communication among them.
This protocol is reported in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Protocols checklist. We will include experimental design studies that report the effect of social media interventions on education and communication among patients with cancer or malignancy and any stage of the disease. Interventions will be inclusive, using all social network platforms for patients' communication and education. We will search PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus and the Cochrane Library from inception until 23 May 2022. Two independent reviewers will screen titles, abstracts and full-text articles with conflicts resolved through discussion or by a third reviewer, as needed. All titles, abstracts and full-text papers will be reviewed independently by two reviewers according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Discrepancies will resolve by discussion or SRNK if needed. The two reviewers will also independently complete risk of bias assessments for each included study. The descriptive analysis, including frequency and percentage parameters, will be calculated based on the study's variables. Furthermore, we will report the results of the quality assessment of studies in table format. In the result section, a narrative synthesis will be applied to describe and compare the paper's results.
Ethics approval will not be needed because the data to be used in this systematic review and meta-analysis will be extracted from published studies. It will be disseminated by publication in a peer-reviewed journal.
CRD42022334691.
癌症是全球主要的死亡原因。此外，仅 2020 年一年，癌症就导致了约 1000 万人死亡。信息和通信技术在改善健康教育和沟通方面具有巨大潜力。社交媒体是可以帮助癌症患者和医疗保健提供者进行沟通和提供教育信息的技术之一。社交媒体越来越多地被用于促进健康和改变行为。这是一项系统评价方案，旨在确定社交媒体干预措施对癌症患者教育和沟通的影响。本研究旨在揭示系统评价研究的步骤，以针对特定目标对所有研究进行研究。本研究旨在研究社交媒体干预措施，以提高癌症患者对疾病的认识和知识水平，并改善他们之间的沟通。
本方案按照系统评价和荟萃分析方案报告的首选项目清单进行报告。我们将包括实验设计研究，报告社交媒体干预措施对癌症或恶性肿瘤患者教育和沟通的影响，以及疾病的任何阶段。干预措施将是包容性的，使用所有社交网络平台进行患者沟通和教育。我们将从成立到 2022 年 5 月 23 日在 PubMed、Web of Science、Scopus 和 Cochrane 图书馆进行搜索。两名独立评审员将根据纳入和排除标准筛选标题、摘要和全文文章，如有冲突则通过讨论或需要时由第三名评审员解决。两名评审员将根据纳入和排除标准独立审查所有标题、摘要和全文文章。如有分歧，将通过讨论或需要时由 SRNK 解决。两名评审员还将独立完成对每项纳入研究的偏倚风险评估。基于研究变量，将计算描述性分析，包括频率和百分比参数。此外，我们将以表格形式报告研究质量评估的结果。在结果部分，将应用叙述性综合描述和比较论文的结果。
由于本系统评价和荟萃分析中使用的数据将从已发表的研究中提取，因此不需要伦理批准。它将通过在同行评审的期刊上发表来传播。
PROSPERO 注册号：CRD42022334691。
