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Therefore, it is necessary to identify the commonly used instruments and possible study designs for the university population, enabling the standardization of interventions and instruments to evaluate the HRQoL of university students. We aim to <bold>c<\/bold>onduct a systematic scoping review to identify th<bold>e<\/bold> main measurement instruments and key characteristics in studies using HRQoL measures among university students. It is also aimed to create an evidence gap map to characterize the main instruments being used with this population, the design of the study, the age and gender of participants, the study language, the type of responses, and the impact factor of the journals to identify foundations for guiding future research priorities.<bold>Methods<\/bold> This review will consider original peer-reviewed articles that used any generic HRQoL measurement instruments exclusively used with university students aged 18\u201359. Validation, qualitative, language translation, or adaptation studies will be excluded. This review will follow the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR). The research will be conducted in five electronic databases (PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, Scopus, and SPORTDiscus). Two reviewers will independently screen records using predefined eligibility criteria and extract data using tables. The extracted data will include specific details about the title, authors, year of publication, HRQoL instrument utilized, participants, intervention design, and critical findings. The results will be presented in a narrative summary with data displayed in tabular and diagrammatic formats.<bold>Discussion<\/bold> This proposed systematic scoping review aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the existing methods for assessing health-related quality of life in university students. The results will help identify gaps in the literature and establish a foundation for guiding future research priorities.<bold>Systematic review registration<\/bold> Registration with Open Science Framework can be found under registration number 10.17605\/OSF.IO\/FY9GU<\/p>","DOI":"10.21203\/rs.3.rs-5550846\/v1","type":"posted-content","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,12,25]],"date-time":"2024-12-25T16:05:41Z","timestamp":1735142741000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Measuring health-related quality of life in university students: a systematic scoping review with evidence gap map protocol"],"prefix":"10.21203","author":[{"given":"Marcelo Couto Jorge","family":"Rodrigues","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Universidade Federal de Goi\u00e1s: Universidade Federal de Goias"}]},{"given":"Augusto Cezar Rodrigues","family":"Rocha","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Universidade Federal de Goi\u00e1s: Universidade Federal de Goias"}]},{"given":"Crislaine Rangel","family":"Couto","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais"}]},{"given":"Filipe Manuel","family":"Clemente","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Instituto Polit\u00e9cnico de Viana do Castelo: Instituto Politecnico de Viana do Castelo"}]},{"given":"Matias","family":"Noll","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Instituto Federal Goiano - Campus Ceres"}]},{"given":"Auro Barreiros","family":"Freire","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Instituto Federal de Educacao Ciencia e Tecnologia Minas Gerais"}]},{"given":"Claudio Andre Barbosa","family":"de Lira","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Universidade Federal de Goi\u00e1s: Universidade Federal de Goias"}]},{"given":"Katja","family":"Weiss","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University Hospital Zurich: UniversitatsSpital Zurich"}]},{"given":"Thomas","family":"Rosemann","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University Hospital Zurich: UniversitatsSpital Zurich"}]},{"given":"Beat","family":"Knechte","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Universitat St Gallen"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0911-8753","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Gustavo De Conti Teixeira","family":"Costa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Universidade Federal de Goi\u00e1s: Universidade Federal de Goias"}]}],"member":"297","reference":[{"key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1403","DOI":"10.1016\/0277-9536(95)00112-K","article-title":"Position paper from the World Health Organization","volume":"41","author":"WHOQOL GROUP. 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