Effectiveness of occupational therapy intervention in overcoming cognitive deficits to enhance quality of life in subjects with gliomas.

Abstract

Background: Quality of life plays an important role that telling us the success of treatment of patients with brain tumors with all survival and live free from the disease. It is seen that the quality of life was less in patients with meningioma and neuromas. Cognitive decline may be the indicator of the progression of the disease and Quality of life is one of the parameters that characterize the success of brain tumor treatments, along with overall survival and a disease-free life. Objectives: This study assesses the effectiveness of occupational therapy intervention in overcoming cognitive deficits to enhance quality of life in subjects with gliomas. Study Design: This study was a Quasi experimental pre-post study. Methods: Qualitative studies were included based on the objectives of the current review inclusion and exclusion criteria were prepared and based on that various database were used in selection of the study. Results: The review study included 250 potentially relevant articles out of which 200 studies were excluded as duplicate, 25 studies were excluded as they didn’t meet inclusion and exclusion criteria, 15 articles didn’t mention the intervention and 10 studies were included for review. Conclusion: studies showed that there are many interventions related to cognition and its improvement but there are no specific studies on gliomas so that’s why there is a need to do further research.