Protocol for an umbrella review of systematic reviews evaluating the efficacy of digital health solutions in supporting adult cancer survivorship care

Danielle Keane, Jean-Paul Calbimonte, Ewa Pawłowska, Angelos P Kassianos, Joan C Medina, João Gregório, Maria Serra-Blasco, Aleksandar Celebic, Antonio Di Meglio, Babak Asadi-Azarbaijani, Claire Foster, Claire L Donohoe, Allini Mafra, Claudine Backes, Cristian Ochoa-Arnedo, Derya Gezer, Gamze Bozkul, Emel Taşvuran Horata, Esra Özkan, Gillian Prue, Gökçe İşcan, Gül Dural, Gülcan Bahçecioğlu, Filiz Ersöğütçü, Guna Bērziņa, Hicran Bektas, Ines- Vaz-Luis, Izidor Mlakar, João Rocha-Gomes, Mairead O’Connor, Maria Inês Clara, Maria Karekla, Marte Hoff Hagen, Merve Saniye İmançer, Oğulcan Çöme, Vildan Mevsim, Nilay Aksoy, Rui Miguel Martins, Sıdıka Ece Yokuş, Sule Biyik Bayram, Aysun Akçakaya Can, Tânia Brandão, Mohamad M Saab, Nuray Bayar Muluk, Zeynep Yıldırım, Ioana R Podina, Songül Karadağ, Sevilay Erden, Remziye Semerci, Aydanur Aydin, Maximos Frountzas, Şengül Üzen Cura, Aydın Ruveyde, Antonios Billis, Jean Calleja-Agius, Katarina Vojvodic, Poonam Jaswal, Eda Sahin, Ayşegül Ilgaz, Sophie Pilleron and Josephine Hegarty

PLOS ONE, 2025, vol. 20, issue 5, 1-12

Abstract: Introduction: The growing number of people living with, through and beyond cancer poses a new challenge for sustainable survivorship care solutions. Digital health solutions which incorporate various information and communication technologies are reshaping healthcare; offering huge potential to facilitate health promotion, support healthcare efficiencies, improve access to healthcare and positively impact health outcomes. Digital health solutions include websites and mobile applications, health information technologies, telehealth solutions, wearable devices, AI-supported chatbots and other technologically assisted provision of health information, communication and services. The breadth and scope of digital health solutions necessitate a synthesis of evidence on their use in supportive care in cancer. This umbrella review will identify, synthesise, and compare systematic reviews which have evaluated the efficacy or effectiveness of digital solutions for adult cancer survivorship care with a particular focus on surveillance and management of physical effects, psychosocial effects, new cancer/ recurring cancers and supporting health promotion and disease prevention. Methods and analysis: An umbrella review of published systematic reviews will be undertaken to explore the types of digital health solutions used, their efficacy or effectiveness as a form of supportive care, and the barriers and enablers associated with their implementation. The umbrella review will be reported according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Overviews of Reviews (PRIOR) checklist. A search will be conducted across key databases. Records will be assessed independently by two review authors for eligibility against predefined criteria and will undergo two stage title, abstract and full text screening. All systematic reviews that meet the inclusion criteria will be assessed for quality using the AMSTAR 2 checklist with quality assessment and data extraction by two reviewers. The degree of publication overlap of primary studies across the included reviews will also be calculated and a mapping of the evidence will also be presented. Ethics and dissemination: As this research proposes using systematic reviews that are already published, ethical approval is not required. Results from this umbrella review will be published in a peer-reviewed journal where any significant deviations from the protocol will be justified.

Date: 2025
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