The social support model for people with chronic health conditions: A proposal for future research

Frohlich, Dennis Owen

doi:10.1057/sth.2014.3

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“…It is noteworthy to mention that the degree of support provided by spouses is different to the extent that some spouses even provide extravagant support. Spouses' extravagant support is harmful and associated with lower self-efficacy, lower perceived control over the underlying disease, and greater risk for experiencing anxiety and depression (27). This finding is consistent with the findings of another study conducted in Iran (28).…”

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confidence: 89%

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The Role of Social Support in Adherence to Treatment Regimens: Experiences of Patients with Chronic Diseases

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Background: One of the main issues regarding the management of chronic diseases is patients' non-adherence to treatment regimens. An important factor affecting treatment adherence is social support. This qualitative study was aimed at exploring the role of perceived social support in adherence to treatment regimens among patients with chronic diseases. Methods: A qualitative study was carried out on 34 patients with chronic diseases, who were purposively recruited from the targeted cities of Bushehr and Tehran, Iran. In-depth non-structured interviews were conducted for the process of data collection from June 2014 to November 2015. Data were constantly and simultaneously analyzed as they were being collected, using the content analysis approach. Results: The data collected in this study yielded four themes that included: having the wholehearted support of a spouse, living with supportive family members and significant others, obtaining information, and confiding in physicians. These themes showed the dimensions and the types of patients' perceived social support. Conclusions: The study's findings imply that the most important and common sources of perceived social support among Iranian patients with chronic illness are their spouses, relatives, and friends. According to the results, the participants realized that social support could help them in adhering to their treatments and coping with their illness. Identifying types of perceived social support allows health professionals, especially nurses, to use such information for developing and implementing evidence-based care plans and organizing support systems in order to enhance patients' adherence to treatments.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 89%

“…This type of support was of paramount importance to the participants. Previous studies also showed that patients considered their marital partners as the most important source of support to them (11,23,26,27). Spouses are uniquely positioned in their partners' medical regimens.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Role of Social Support in Adherence to Treatment Regimens: Experiences of Patients with Chronic Diseases

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“…In addition to practical help, social support also constitutes an important psychological protective factor in coping with haemophilia (emotional base, future prospects, having someone to live for, having someone to turn to when needing help). Studies dealing with other chronic diseases, diabetes, or cancer, arrived at the same conclusion with respect to the impact of social support on psychological health 28‐30 . Reliable, high‐quality social support can enhance resilience to stress, help protect against trauma‐related psychopathology, decrease the functional consequences of trauma‐induced disorders (such as posttraumatic stress disorder) and reduce medical morbidity and mortality 31 .…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 88%

Social support and resilience in persons with severe haemophilia: An interpretative phenomenological analysis

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This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. AbstractIntroduction: Haemophilia is a hereditary haemorrhagic disorder characterized by deficiency or dysfunction of coagulation factors. Recurrent joint and muscle bleeds lead to progressive musculoskeletal damage. Haemophilia affects patients physically but also socially and psychologically. Traumatic experiences, chronic stress and illnesses can lead to mental disorders, but many persons with haemophilia maintain a highly positive outlook. Aim:To explore qualitatively which coping mechanisms persons with haemophilia use and in what way they help them to live with their diagnosis. Methods:We recruited five adults with haemophilia and conducted semi-structured face-to-face interviews. Transcripts were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). Results:Two core themes emerged from the analysis: social support as an external factor and resilience as an internal factor of coping with the disease. Persons with haemophilia usually need help with health-related complications, and this affects the social support they require. Their wider support network tends to involve family and friends but also healthcare professionals and other specialists. This network provides practical help but also functions as an important psychological protective factor. An unexpected finding was that persons with haemophilia want not only to receive support but are also keen to offer support to others. Conclusion: These findings can help identify persons who provide most support to people suffering from haemophilia. Haemophilic centres should include in their teams psychologists and social workers and offer individual and group therapy to their clients, group meetings for friends and families of persons with haemophilia, provide learning resources to teachers aiming to incorporate children with haemophilia in their peer group, and organize Balint groups for physicians, psychologists and other healthcare professionals. K E Y W O R D S group therapy, haemophilia, individual therapy, resilience, social support | e75 RATAJOVÁ eT Al.

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“…Since KC women are often in similar situations and environments, it is thought that there is a high frequency of network support interactions like real-life-related topics between participants [ 38 ]. Thus, to approach migrant populations within this environment, network support can be hypothesized to impact health promotion [ 39 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

Network Support Using Social Networking Services to Increase Exercise Adherence Among Korean-Chinese Middle-Aged Migrant Women: Mixed Methods Study

Lee

Kim

et al. 2020

JMIR Mhealth Uhealth

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Background Social networking services (SNSs) are recognized to be a promising approach to easily deliver health interventions and to enhance social support for exercise adherence. However, the patterns and aspects of social support through SNSs have not been reported and their influence on other social-cognitive factors remains inconclusive. Objective Our objective is to explore how social support delivered through SNSs impacts interactions among Korean-Chinese (KC) middle-aged women and to identify how this approach influences social-cognitive factors for exercise (eg, sense of community, self-efficacy for exercise, and social support for exercise). Methods A mixed methods design was used. Text analysis of SNS messages and text mining using the Korean Natural Language Application (KoALA) were conducted. Social-cognitive factors (eg, sense of community, self-efficacy for exercise, and social support for exercise) were assessed at baseline and after 12 weeks using a structured questionnaire. A comparison of social-cognitive factors at baseline and at 12 weeks was conducted to identify any potential significant changes, using the Wilcoxon signed-rank test. Results A total of 259 SNS messages were collected from 24 KC women, distributed among four chat groups, who participated in a 12-week walking intervention program between August and October 2018. The individual average frequency of chatting via the SNS was 10.79 (range 0-34) and the most frequent type of social support through the SNS was network support (172/259, 66.4%). The most common words extracted from the SNS were Health, Exercise, Participation, and We. Overall, the perceived levels of sense of community (P<.001) and social support for exercise (P=.002) were significantly increased at 12 weeks compared with baseline. Group 1 (P=.03) and Group 4 (P=.03), whose members demonstrated the highest frequency of network support, experienced a significant increase only in the level of sense of community. Conclusions By integrating these data and conducting a mixed methods analysis, we observed that among the types of social support, network support was a key point for the promotion of social-cognitive factors in increasing exercise adherence. Therefore, network support through SNS-based interventions should be considered as a useful strategy to help vulnerable migrant populations make changes to exercise behaviors.

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The social support model for people with chronic health conditions: A proposal for future research

Cited by 14 publications

References 52 publications

The Role of Social Support in Adherence to Treatment Regimens: Experiences of Patients with Chronic Diseases

The Role of Social Support in Adherence to Treatment Regimens: Experiences of Patients with Chronic Diseases

Social support and resilience in persons with severe haemophilia: An interpretative phenomenological analysis

Network Support Using Social Networking Services to Increase Exercise Adherence Among Korean-Chinese Middle-Aged Migrant Women: Mixed Methods Study

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