Instruments to Assess the Subjective Repercussions of People with Chronic Wounds: Integrative Review

Instrumentos para avaliacao das repercussoes subjetivas de pessoas com feridas cronicas: revisao integrativa Instrumentos para evaluar  las repercusiones subjetivas  de personas con heridas cronicas: revision integrativa Objective:  To analyze the instruments described in the literature for extended assessment in people with chronic wound.  Materials and methods:  Study of integrative review  of the  l i te ra tu re . The search was conducted on databases including PUBMED, Web of Science, SciELO, CINAHL, Science Direct (Elsevier), Scopus, and Biblioteca Virtual da Saude (BVS).  Results:  The search found 19 060 articles; after relevance tests, 41 were left. The instrument most used in the studies of this review was the Short Form 36 Health Survery (SF-36), which is a tool to assess quality of life (QOL).  Conclusion:  A diversity of instruments was identified for extended assessment of people with wounds, with those investigating QOL being the most frequent. The repercussions are, mostly, contained in the QOL assessment instruments, but superficially and/or not explicitly, as in the SF-36, the means most-frequently identified in the studies of this review. These findings suggest the likelihood of differentiated implications of these instruments according to the etiology of the lesions, psychosocial and psychospiritual needs of the individual, as well as the context to which they are destined, like teaching, clinical practice, or research. To reference this article / Para citar este articulo / Para citar este artigo  Lemes JS ,  Amaral KVA ,  Nunes CAB ,  Campos ACA ,  Batista AN ,  Malaquias SG .  Instruments to Assess the Subjective Repercussions of People with Chronic Wounds: Integrative Review . Aquichan 2019; 19(1): e1918. DOI:  10.5294/aqui.2019.19.1.8 Received: 28/07/2018 Approved: 29/11/2018