Widyakusuma Niken Nur, Suryawati Sri, Wiedyaningsih Chairun, Padmawati Retna Siwi
Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Jl. Farmako Sekip Utara, Yogyakarta, 55281, Indonesia.
Faculty of Pharmacy, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Sekip Utara, Yogyakarta, 55281, Indonesia.
J Pharm Policy Pract. 2023 Jun 19;16(1):75. doi: 10.1186/s40545-023-00576-7.
Pharmacists must cater to seniors' needs and communicate better in delivering pharmaceutical care. However, pharmaceutical care for seniors is unique since they commonly depend on support from their social environment. Our study aimed to collect perceptions and experiences of Asian seniors regarding social support.
A qualitative systematic review of peer-reviewed articles between January 2012 and January 2022 was conducted using PubMed, Scopus, Academic Search Complete via EBSCOhost, ProQuest, and Google Scholar. Selected studies were extracted, and thematic synthesis was performed.
A total of 23 qualitative studies with diverse rigor were included in this review. Themes that emerged around perceptions and experiences of social support were (1) family orientation, (2) having faith in religion, (3) the importance of the elderly providing support, (4) taboos, (5) elderly self-reliance, (6) elderly fear of being a burden, and (7) differences on perceptions and experiences regarding social support. A discussion on how these results may contribute to pharmacy practice is provided.
This study reviews the available social support for seniors and highlights its importance for pharmacists.
药剂师必须满足老年人的需求,并在提供药学服务时进行更好的沟通。然而,老年人的药学服务具有独特性,因为他们通常依赖社会环境的支持。我们的研究旨在收集亚洲老年人对社会支持的看法和经历。
使用PubMed、Scopus、通过EBSCOhost的学术搜索完整版、ProQuest和谷歌学术对2012年1月至2022年1月期间的同行评审文章进行定性系统综述。提取选定的研究并进行主题综合分析。
本综述共纳入23项严谨程度各异的定性研究。围绕社会支持的看法和经历出现的主题有:(1)家庭导向;(2)对宗教的信仰;(3)老年人提供支持的重要性;(4)禁忌;(5)老年人的自力更生;(6)老年人害怕成为负担;(7)社会支持方面看法和经历的差异。文中还讨论了这些结果如何有助于药学实践。
本研究回顾了现有的老年人社会支持情况,并强调了其对药剂师的重要性。