ArticleFrontiers in medicine2024
Health professionals' involvement in volunteering their professional skills: a scoping review.
Article in Frontiers in medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- A Multidimensional Assessment of the Impact of Healthcare Volunteering in a War-Affected Setting.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2026Article
- The Role of Volunteers in Supporting the Psychosocial Well-Being of Hospitalised Children with Cancer: A Narrative Review and Recommendations for Clinical Practice.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Identifying vulnerable groups of community-dwelling older adults with a strong willingness to receive volunteer services based on machine learning methods.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Shaping tomorrow's professionals: King Saud University's transformative course on medical volunteerism, empowering students to develop proposals for impactful initiatives.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- Motivations, challenges, and benefits of first aid knowledge popularization volunteerism among undergraduate medical students: a qualitative study.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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Abstract
Background: Volunteering positively affects overall health of both volunteers and recipients through social interaction, support and physical activity. Health professionals' volunteering has considerable potential to improve health outcomes in communities. Objectives: This study aimed to summarize published scientific literature regarding volunteering by health professionals. Method: Medine, Embase, Scopus, PsycINFO and CINAHLdatabases were searched to identify eligible studies published between 2010 and 2023. Data on study methods and findings were extracted and synthesized. Results: Of the 144 eligible studies, 80 (56%) used quantitative methods, 46 (32%) used qualitative, 18 (12%) used mixed methods and 8 (6%) were interventional. Doctors (74 studies, 51%) and nurses ( Conclusion: Health professionals volunteer in diverse activities and report multifaceted benefits. Studies of volunteering interventions could enable new, sustainable approaches to health promotion.
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