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  • Background: Restriction of the number of activities or the quality of activities can have serious drawbacks for a person’s feelings of autonomy. The aim of this review to identify variables that predict perceived autonomy. Method: We identified articles through databases searching: EbscoHost, CINAHL and PubMed published between 2008-2018. Result: eight articles were analysed and selected from 601 journal articles found for this systematic review identified a range of variables with good preliminary evidence supporting their ability to predict perceived autonomy. Of these variables, comorbidity, age (heterogeneous age ranges), symptoms, female gender, a marital status of divorced, separated or widowed, non-white ethnicity, were associated with increased perceived autonomy. Conclusion: The findings can inform decisions about which variables might be used to derive self-reliance, a sense of well-being, and comfort or satisfaction with retaining control and directing one’s own life in the physical and psychological health. However, many of these studied still lacked of method, sample size and heterogeneous. So we suggest to do further examination.