Tropical spastic paraparesis and quality of life in individuals with HTLV: integrative review protocol
Keywords:
Paraparesis, tropical spastic, Quality of life, HTLV-I infectionsAbstract
Objective: To understand how tropical spastic paraparesis affects the quality of life of individuals infected with HTLV. Method: This is an integrative review protocol, whose research question, defined by the PCC acronym, will be: "How does tropical spastic paraparesis impact the quality of life of individuals infected with HTLV?" The inclusion criteria will be articles from the last five years, with full-text availability. Searches will be conducted in the PubMed, MEDLINE, and LILACS databases, the latter two accessed through the Virtual Health Library (VHL). Descriptors indexed in the Health Sciences Descriptors (DeCS) and Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) will be used. Study selection will be carried out through the reading of titles and abstracts for eligibility, followed by full-text reading. After an in-depth reading and constant data comparison, a final synthesis will be prepared with a narrative and critical presentation of the results.
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