Objective  To systematically evaluate the qualitative research on disease experience of breast cancer patients. Methods  China National Knowledge Infrastructure, WanFang Data, and Web of Science were searched for qualitative research on disease experience of breast cancer patients till April 15, 2022. JBI was used to evaluate the quality of the literatures, and meta-integration was used to systematic evaluation. Results  A total of 36 literatures were included. Among them, there were 177 clear research results, and a total of 14 complete research results were extracted, including positive experience and negative experience, which were summarized into 7 categories. 7 categories included physical experience, psychological experience, family and social support, disease knowledge needs, medical humanistic care, medical treatment process, coping. Two integrated results were synthesized, including disease experience and medical treatment experience. Conclusions  In the whole process of breast cancer patients’ illness and medical treatment, they need not only guidance and support, but also medical humanistic care to help them respond to their own changes in a timely manner. The quality of life of patients can be improved by providing them with sufficient disease related information, striving to improve the medical treatment process, establishing and improving their all-round support system.

Citation： MU Kaiwen, XIA Ping. Meta-integration of qualitative research on disease experience of breast cancer patients. West China Medical Journal, 2022, 37(12): 1779-1787. doi: 10.7507/1002-0179.202209087 Copy