Characteristics of the studies using realist evaluation to assess interventions that address psychosocial healthcare issues in older adults: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Interventions to address psychosocial healthcare issues in older adults are increasing. Realist evaluation (RE) helps us understand how these interventions work for their issues. It is significant to obtain implications for further developing such research. We aimed to identify the characteristics of studies using RE to assess interventions that address psychosocial healthcare issues in older adults by mapping relevant literature.

Design

Scoping review.

Data sources

MEDLINE, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, PsycINFO, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, ICHUSHI (a Japanese database) and Google Scholar were used for searches between 5 January 2022 and 4 January 2024.

Eligibility criteria

(1) Showing that most of the participa

SUBMITTER: Mitani S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11367357 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature