A Meta-Synthesis Study of Person-Centered Care Experience from the Perspective of Nursing Home Residents

Eun-Young Kim; Sung-Ok Chang

doi:10.3390/ijerph19148576

A Meta-Synthesis Study of Person-Centered Care Experience from the Perspective of Nursing Home Residents

Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jul 14;19(14):8576. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19148576.

Authors

Eun-Young Kim¹, Sung-Ok Chang²

Affiliations

¹ College of Nursing, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Korea.
² College of Nursing, and BK21 FOUR R&E Center for Learning Health Systems, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Korea.

Abstract

Purpose: To systematically review and synthesize the evidence for the experience of person-centered care from the perspective of nursing home residents to understand their views in depth.

Methods: The seven steps of Nobit and Hare's meta-ethnography, a well-known meta-synthesis method, were applied. We used four databases for the literature search (PubMed, Web of Science, EMBASE, and CINAHL).

Results: A total of seven studies were included for review. As a result of synthesizing the results, three themes ("promotion of mutual understanding through communication", "care that acknowledges the independence of residents" and "finding the optimized state") and six sub-themes were derived.

Conclusions: This study has provided an in-depth understanding of person-centered care and will contribute to increasing its practical application.

Keywords: nursing homes; person-centered care; qualitative research; systematic review.

Publication types

Review
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Anthropology, Cultural*
Humans
Nursing Homes*
Patient-Centered Care
Self Care

Grants and funding

This study was supported by a National Research Foundation of Korea grant funded by the Korean government (NRF-2021R1I1A1A01048956), (2022R1A2C1004542).