Clinical indicators for nursing diagnosis Ineffective protection in adolescents with cancer.

OBJECTIVE To investigate scientific evidence related to the term protection and clinical indicators and etiologic factors for nursing diagnosis Ineffective protection in adolescents with cancer. METHOD Integrative literature review in the databases of Scopus, Web of Science, National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health (PubMed) and Cochrane; by intersection of the descriptors protection and childhood cancer, which resulted in seven articles. These were insufficient for a comprehension of the term protection and aspects related to its impairment, therefore it was necessary to include a further three reference books. RESULTS Five clinical indicators and three etiologic factors associated to Ineffective protection were identified some of which were not cited in NANDA-International. CONCLUSIONS There are clinical and etiologic factors important for the identification of ineffective protection in adolescents with cancer.