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ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Collaborative Learning through a Virtual Community of Practice in Dementia Care Support: A Scoping Review.

Justice Dey-Seshie Dedzoe, Agneta Malmgren Fänge, Jonas Christensen, Connie Lethin

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Article in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Co-Design of a Community of Practice for People With Personal and Professional Expertise or Interest in Dementia in Australia.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Justice Dey-Seshie DedzoeDepartment of Health Sciences, Lund University, 221 00 Lund, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-5328-7875
Agneta Malmgren FängeDepartment of Health Sciences, Lund University, 221 00 Lund, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-3165-1856
Jonas ChristensenDepartment of Social Work, Malmö University, 205 06 Malmö, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-0428-2001
Connie LethinDepartment of Health Sciences, Lund University, 221 00 Lund, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-2523-8440

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The aim of this scoping review was to identify, synthesize, and report research on reflective collaborative learning through virtual communities of practice (vCoP), which, to our knowledge, is scarce. A second aim was to identify, synthesize, and report research on the facilitators and barriers associated with resilience capacity and knowledge acquisition through vCoP. The literature was searched in PsycINFO, CINAHL, Medline, EMBASE, Scopus, and Web of Science. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews (PRISMA) and Meta-Analyses for Scoping Reviews (ScR) framework guided the review. Ten studies were included in the review, seven quantitative and three qualitative studies, written in English and published from January 2017 to February 2022. The data were synthesized using a numerical descriptive summary and qualitative thematic analysis. Two themes: 'knowledge acquisition' and 'strengthening resilience capacity' emerged. The literature synthesis provides evidence of a vCoP as a digital space that supports knowledge acquisition and strengthens resilience for persons with dementia, and their informal and formal caregivers. Hence, the use of vCoP seems to be useful for dementia care support. Further studies including less developed countries are, however, needed to enable generalizability of the concept of vCoP across countries.

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dementiaformal caregiversinformal caregiversreflective collaborative learningresilience capacityvirtual community of practice

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PMID36900696
PMCPMC10001025

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