Comentarios de Factors that contribute to salutogenesis: Systematic review protocol

Study design and Methods

This systematic review will be conducted in compliance with The Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions. 

Eligibility Criteria

Titles and abstracts will be screened for eligibility according to the following inclusion and exclusion criteria.

Inclusion criteria

Types of studies: We will include quantitative studies of any design, provided that they report original data from a defined study population.

Types of participants: We will include participants with a clinical diagnosis of one or more chronic diseases.

Types of interventions: This review will include studies with original data on self-rated health assessments, also called self-rated health status, self-rated general health or self-reported health. The data would need to be collected by asking patients a single question such as “In general, how would you rate your health?” or “ In general, how would you say your health is?”.

Types of outcome measures: One of five possible answers to the above questions: excellent, very good, good, fair, or poor.