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SynthesisInquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing

Social Interventions Targeting Social Relations Among Older People at Nursing Homes: A Qualitative Synthesized Systematic Review.

Anne Sophie Bech Mikkelsen, Signe Petersen, Anne Cathrine Dragsted, Maria Kristiansen

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Synthesis in Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  6. Skin Ulcer Development and Deterioration of Social Engagement among Nursing Home Residents.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2025
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  14. Co-Creation and Co-Production of Health Promoting Activities Addressing Older People-A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Anne Sophie Bech Mikkelsen1 Section for Health Services Research, Department of Public Health & Center for Healthy Aging, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0003-0333-3057
Signe Petersen1 Section for Health Services Research, Department of Public Health & Center for Healthy Aging, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Anne Cathrine Dragsted1 Section for Health Services Research, Department of Public Health & Center for Healthy Aging, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Maria Kristiansen1 Section for Health Services Research, Department of Public Health & Center for Healthy Aging, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Social relations are part of the complex set of factors affecting health and well-being in old age. This systematic review seeks to uncover whether social interventions have an effect on social and health-related measures among nursing home residents. The authors screened PubMed, Scopus, and PsycINFO for relevant peer-reviewed literature. Interventions were included if (1) they focused primarily on social relations or related terms such as loneliness, social support, social isolation, social network, or being involuntarily alone either as the base theory of the intervention or as an outcome measure of the intervention; (2) they were implemented at nursing homes (or similar setting); (3) they had a narrative activity as its core (as opposed to dancing, gardening or other physical activity); (4) their participants met either physically or nonphysically, ie, via video-conference or the like; and if (5) they targeted residents at a nursing home. The authors systematically appraised the quality of the final selection of studies using the Mixed Methods Assessments Tool (MMAT) version 2011 and did a qualitative synthesis of the final study selection. A total of 10 studies were included. Reminiscence therapy was the most common intervention. Studies also included video-conference, cognitive, and support group interventions. All studies found the social interventions brought about positive trends on either/or the social and health-related measures included. Despite limited and very diverse evidence, our systematic review indicated a positive social and health-related potential of social interventions for older people living in nursing homes or similar institutions.

Indexed as

Interpersonal RelationsSocial SupportAgedHumansLonelinessNursing HomesSocial Isolationinterventionslonelinessnursing homesolder peopleoutcome assessmentsocial interventionssocial isolationsocial relationssocial support

Identifiers

PMID30791836
PMCPMC6376508

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