The Impact of Chronic Pelvic Pain and Bowel Morbidity on Quality of Life in Cervical Cancer Patients Treated With Radio (Chemo) Therapy. A Systematic Literature Review.

Introduction: Radiotherapy, administered with or without chemotherapy is the gold standard treatment for cervical cancer with both curative and palliative intent. However, the treatments often result in adverse events, mainly chronic pelvic pain and bowel morbidity, which can negatively impact quality of life.

Aim: To systematically appraise peer reviewed evidence regarding chronic pelvic pain and bowel morbidity and their impact on quality-of-life of cervical cancer patients treated with radiotherapy with or without chemoradiation therapy.

Knowledge, Self-Efficacy, and Correlates in Palliative and End-of-Life Care: Quantitative Insights from Final-Year Nursing and Medical Students in a Mixed-Methods Study.

Introduction: About a decade after the introduction of palliative care teaching for undergraduate nurses and medical students in Uganda, no research has examined students' knowledge and self-efficacy to provide palliative and end-of-life care and their correlates.

Aims: To: (1) estimate final-year undergraduate nursing and medical students' knowledge of and self-efficacy to provide palliative and end-of-life care, (2) identify correlates of knowledge and self-efficacy to provide palliative and end-of-life care.

Design: A multicentre cross-sectional quantitative study.