Last Updated : December 15, 2021
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Project Number:
RA1201-000
Question
- What literature is available that explores how people or their formal and informal caregivers engage with and experience the use of compression garments as part of their maintenance therapy to prevent wound recurrence?
- What literature is available that explores how people with a venous leg ulcer, or their formal and informal caregivers, engage with and experience the process of treating venous leg ulcers with compression garments (as a non-surgical intervention)?
Key Message
Two primary qualitative studies explored the perspectives and experiences of people engaged with compression garments as part of their maintenance therapy to prevent venous leg ulcer recurrence.
Three primary qualitative studies explored the perspectives and experiences of people engaged with compression garments as part of the processes of treating venous leg ulcers.
No mixed-methods studies exploring the use of compression garments as either part of maintenance therapy to prevent venous leg ulcer recurrence or as part of the process of treating venous leg ulcers were reviewed.
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Last Updated : December 15, 2021