Key result
Recovery from a hip fracture is an individual process where physical training must be combined with psychosocial interventions to promote personal engagement and health.
Why the study?
To describe and interpret how older adults who have returned home to recover from a hip fracture cope with life in a health promoting perspective.
How do older adults recovering from a hip fracture at home cope with life from a health promoting perspective?
Systematic Review (n=17)
How do older adults recovering from a hip fracture at home cope with life from a health promoting perspective?
Physical training should be combined with psychosocial interventions to promote recovery and health in older adults after hip fracture.
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Supports combining psychosocial interventions with physical training for home-based hip fracture recovery; extends evidence for individualized health-promoting approaches.
AIM: To describe and interpret how older adults who have returned home to recover from a hip fracture cope with life in a health promoting perspective. DESIGN: Data were collected through the search in seven electronic databases during 2014. Inclusion criteria were peer reviewed, empirical studies. The keywords were hip fracture, coping, empowerment, self-efficacy, elderly, frail elderly, oldest old. Seventeen papers published 1991-2014 were eligible for inclusion. Analysis of the qualitative and quantitative papers was conducted separately guided by the key words coping, empowerment and self-efficacy. Due to diversity of studies, a meta-analysis was not performed. The findings were reported in a narrative synthesis. RESULTS: Recovery is an individual process of regaining health. It is important to include the person's resources and own goals in life. Physical training must be combined with psychosocial interventions to promote personal engagement and health.
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Lind et al. (2018) conducted a systematic review in Hip fracture (n=17). Psychosocial interventions combined with physical training was evaluated on Coping with life in a health promoting perspective. Recovery from a hip fracture is an individual process where physical training must be combined with psychosocial interventions to promote personal engagement and health.
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