Beck Amy J, Barber Tanya, McKenzie Holly, Thorlakson Jessica, Dell Colleen, Keeping-Burke Lisa
Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Department of Family Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
JBI Evid Synth. 2022 Mar 1;20(3):924-930. doi: 10.11124/JBIES-21-00151.
The objective of this review is to examine the perceptions and experiences of health care professionals and staff in implementing or coordinating animal-assisted interventions in health care settings.
Animal-assisted interventions are applied in the areas of health, education, and human services to help improve individuals' health and wellness. The positive effects of animal-assisted interventions on individuals have been shown in multiple health disciplines, from pediatrics to long-term care, and include outcomes such as decreased feelings of loneliness and increased feelings of support. The increase of animal-assisted interventions in human health has initiated growing research on health care professionals' perceptions and experiences of these interventions. No current qualitative systematic reviews have focused solely on health care professionals' and staff's perceptions of animal-assisted interventions. Conducting such a review will advance understanding of how these providers perceive and engage with animal-assisted interventions as well as their influence and role in coordinating these interventions.
This review will consider qualitative primary studies that address the perceptions and experiences of health care professionals and staff in implementing or coordinating animal-assisted interventions in health care settings.
Nine bibliographic databases will be systematically searched for published and unpublished studies by employing a three-step search strategy. Studies published from database inception to present and in English will be considered. Two reviewers will independently appraise the studies and extract qualitative data using the standardized JBI critical appraisal and data extraction instruments. Findings from the review will be categorized according to similarity in meaning, and categories will be subjected to a meta-synthesis to produce a single comprehensive set of synthesized findings.
PROSPERO CRD42021258909.
本综述的目的是考察医疗保健专业人员和工作人员在医疗环境中实施或协调动物辅助干预措施时的看法和经历。
动物辅助干预措施应用于健康、教育和人类服务领域，以帮助改善个人的健康状况。动物辅助干预措施对个人的积极影响已在多个健康学科中得到证实，从儿科学到长期护理，包括诸如孤独感降低和支持感增强等结果。动物辅助干预措施在人类健康领域的增加引发了对医疗保健专业人员对这些干预措施的看法和经历的越来越多的研究。目前尚无定性系统综述仅关注医疗保健专业人员和工作人员对动物辅助干预措施的看法。进行这样的综述将增进对这些提供者如何看待和参与动物辅助干预措施以及他们在协调这些干预措施中的影响和作用的理解。
本综述将考虑定性的原始研究，这些研究涉及医疗保健专业人员和工作人员在医疗环境中实施或协调动物辅助干预措施时的看法和经历。
将采用三步搜索策略，系统地在九个文献数据库中搜索已发表和未发表的研究。将考虑从数据库建立到目前以英文发表的研究。两名评审员将独立评估这些研究，并使用标准化的JBI批判性评估和数据提取工具提取定性数据。综述的结果将根据意义的相似性进行分类，并且将对这些类别进行元综合，以产生一套单一的综合研究结果。
PROSPERO CRD42021258909。
