Abstract: Objective: To systematically integrate the return to school experiences of pediatric brain tumor survivors, and to inform their quick adaptation to return to school life. Methods: A comprehensive search of domestic and foreign databases on the experience of pediatric brain tumor survivors returning to school was conducted from inception to February 19, 2025. The quality of the included literature was evaluated according to the quality assessment criteria for qualitative research of the Australian JBI Centre for Evidence-Based Health Care, and the pooled integration method was used to integrate and analyze the included literature. Results: A total of 8 articles were included, 28 research results were extracted and categorized into 10 new categories, and synthesized into 3 integrative results, namely, the complexity of the psychological experience of return to school with both positive experiences and negative experiences, the multiple challenges of return to school, and the expectation of long-term diversified support for the process of return to school. Conclusion: Healthcare professionals should pay full attention to the life experience and social needs of pediatric brain tumor survivors in the process of adapting to return to school, construct long-term diversified interventions to support their return to school, improve the academic security system for pediatric brain tumor survivors, and promote their return to school and reintegration into society.

Key words: brain tumor; children; survivor; return to school; Meta-integration