THE EFFECT OF HOME VISITS BY NURSES ON THE PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOSOCIAL HEALTH OF THE ELDERLY: STUDY PROTOCOL FOR A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS

Year 2018, Volume: 2 Issue: 3, 97 - 104, 31.07.2018

Emine Ergin , Belgin Akın Deniz Tanyer

Abstract

One of the most significant global demographic tendencies is the rapidly
aging world population which will soon be a global health problem. Community
health nurses can easily address, observe the risk factors of the elderly's
health and health-promoting behaviors during home visits. Home visits reduce
the mortality and hospitalization rates of the elderly and enable taking
measures against many risky situations. Scientific evidence exists for the fact
that more frequent home visits reduce mortality and hospitalization. The objective of systematic review and meta analysis is
to identify and synthesize the evidence on the effectiveness of home visits by
nurses on the physical and psychosocial health of the elderly.

Systematic
review and meta analysis, study design was 
used. The included studies design of  randomized controlled, quasi-experimental and
observational (cohort, case-control, cross-sectional), Turkish and English,
between December, 2004 and December 2016 (but not finished, ongoing) including
a home visit attempt and health outcomes will include physical and psychosocial
health. Medline (6860 articles), Web of Sciences (1933 articles), Pubmed (1551
articles), Science Direct (1021 articles), Cinahl Plus with Full Text (1020
articles), Cochrane (501 articles) Tubitak (98 articles), and Yök (126
articles) were searched among a total of 13.110 abstract databases. Scientific evidence exists for the fact that more
frequent home visits reduce mortality and hospitalization.The results of this
study will help to identify and synthesize the evidence on the effectiveness of home visits by nurses
on the health of the elderly.

Keywords

elderly, home visit, meta-analysis. nursing, systematic review

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