Table 1.

Description of Selected Papers

Authors (Year) Country, Method	Goal	Characteristics
Brauer et al. (2017) USA, GT Brauer et al. (2018) USA, GT	Explore return-to-work and return-to-school processes for YACs following HSCT Explore transition to self-care in a sample of YACs following HSCT	18 YACs aged 18–29, 8–60 months after HSCT (women n = 7; men n = 11) ALL: 5, AML: 10, HL: 2, NHL: 1
Cooke et al. (2011) USA, mixed longitudinal	Describe the experiences of YACs in the year following their HSCT	24 YACs aged 18–25 having undergone HSCT (women n = 13; men n = 11) acute leukemia: 20, Hodgkin’s disease: 2, CLL 1, myelodysplastic syndrome: 1
Farsi (2015) Iran, GT Farsi et al. (2010) Iran, unspecified qualitative Farsi et al. (2012) Iran, GT	Explain how the meaning given to disease and spiritual responses to stressors influence the experiences of adults undergoing HSCT Explore coping strategies of Iranian adults with acute leukemia who are undergoing HSCT Articulate the coping strategies of adults with acute leukemia undergoing HSCT	10 YACs, aged 18–48 undergoing HSCT (women n = 5; men n = 5) AML: 6, ALL: 4
Haase et al. (2020) USA, phenomenological	Describe the experiences of YACs who took part in an intervention during their hospitalization for HSCT as part of a randomized clinical trial	14 YACs aged 13–22 having undergone HSCT (women n = 4; men n = 10), sample from Robb et al. (2014)
Morrison, Martsolf et al. (2018) USA, GT Morrison, Pai et al. (2018) USA, GT	Describe how YACs manage their medications following HSCT Present facilitators and barriers for YACs following HSCT	17 YACs aged 13–25 undergoing HSCT (women n = 9; men n = 4) AML: 2, ALL: 1, HL: 3, other: 11
Nance and Santacroce (2017) USA, ethnographic	Analyze how a blogger describes stressful elements, neuropsychological symptoms and coping strategies during HSCT	1 woman undergoing HSCT; AML: 1
Robb et al. (2014) USA, randomized clinical trial	Examine the efficacy of therapeutic music video intervention during the acute phase of HSCT	113 YACs aged 11–24 having undergone HSCT (women n = 48; men n = 64)

Abbreviations: GT: Grounded theory; YACs: young adults with cancer; HSCT: hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; HL: Hodgkin’s lymphoma; ALL: acute lymphocytic leukemia; AML: acute myelogenous leukemia; NHL: non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma; CLL: chronic lymphocytic leukemia.