Department of Nursing, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain.
IDIVAL Nursing Research Group, Santander, Spain.
Syst Rev. 2022 Jan 10;11(1):9. doi: 10.1186/s13643-021-01876-2.
In recent decades, the literature on Social Network Analysis and health has experienced a significant increase. Disease transmission, health behavior, organizational networks, social capital, and social support are among the different health areas where Social Network Analysis has been applied. The current epidemiological trend is characterized by a progressive increase in the population's ageing and the incidence of long-term conditions. Thus, it seems relevant to highlight the importance of social support and care systems to guarantee the coverage of health and social needs within the context of acute illness, chronic disease, and disability for patients and their carers. Thus, the main aim is to identify, categorize, summarize, synthesize, and map existing knowledge, literature, and evidence about the use of Social Network Analysis to study social support and care in the context of illness and disability.
This scoping review will be conducted following Arksey and O'Malley's framework with adaptations from Levac et al. and Joanna Briggs Institute's methodological guidance for conducting scoping reviews. We will search the following databases (from January 2000 onwards): PubMed, MEDLINE, Web of Science Core Collection, SCOPUS, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, PROSPERO, and DARE. Complementary searches will be conducted in selected relevant journals. Only articles related to social support or care in patients or caregivers in the context of acute illnesses, disabilities or long-term conditions will be considered eligible for inclusion. Two reviewers will screen all the citations, full-text articles, and abstract the data independently. A narrative synthesis will be provided with information presented in the main text and tables.
The knowledge about the scientific evidence available in the literature, the methodological characteristics of the studies identified based on Social Network Analysis, and its main contributions will highlight the importance of health-related research's social and relational dimensions. These results will shed light on the importance of the structure and composition of social networks to provide social support and care and their impact on other health outcomes. It is anticipated that results may guide future research on network-based interventions that might be considered drivers to provide further knowledge in social support and care from a relational approach at the individual and community levels.
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近几十年来，社会网络分析与健康领域的文献数量显著增加。疾病传播、健康行为、组织网络、社会资本和社会支持是社会网络分析应用于不同健康领域的几个方面。当前的流行病学趋势的特点是人口老龄化和长期疾病发病率的逐步增加。因此，强调社会支持和护理系统的重要性，以确保在急性疾病、慢性病和残疾的背景下为患者及其照顾者提供健康和社会需求的覆盖范围，似乎是很重要的。因此，主要目的是确定、分类、总结、综合和绘制现有关于使用社会网络分析来研究疾病和残疾背景下社会支持和护理的知识、文献和证据。
本范围综述将按照 Arksey 和 O'Malley 的框架进行，并根据 Levac 等人和 Joanna Briggs 研究所的进行范围综述的方法指南进行调整。我们将从 2000 年 1 月开始在以下数据库中进行搜索：PubMed、MEDLINE、Web of Science 核心合集、SCOPUS、CINAHL、PsycINFO、Cochrane 系统评价数据库、PROSPERO 和 DARE。还将在选定的相关期刊中进行补充搜索。只有与急性疾病、残疾或长期疾病患者或护理人员的社会支持或护理相关的文章才符合纳入标准。两名评审员将独立筛选所有引用、全文文章并提取数据。将提供叙述性综合，主要文本和表格中提供信息。
关于文献中可用的科学证据的知识、根据社会网络分析确定的研究的方法特征及其主要贡献，将突出健康相关研究的社会和关系维度的重要性。这些结果将阐明社会网络的结构和组成对提供社会支持和护理的重要性，以及它们对其他健康结果的影响。预计结果可能会指导基于网络的干预措施的未来研究，这些干预措施可能被认为是提供个体和社区层面从关系方法角度看待社会支持和护理的进一步知识的驱动力。
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