Scoping review of social workers' professional roles in primary care.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Maximising social workers' contributions to primary care requires clarity about their scope of practice in this context. This scoping review sought to clarify what is known about social work's scope of practice in primary care settings.

Design

A scoping review design guided by the five-stage scoping review framework developed by Arksey and O'Malley and the updated JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis.

Data sources

204 articles, published between 2013 and 2023 and obtained from the following seven databases, were reviewed: MEDLINE, CINAHL, Social Work Abstracts, Social Services Abstracts, Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts and Scopus.

Eligibility criteria

Peer-reviewed articles that included a focus on social work and primary care, written in En

SUBMITTER: Ashcroft R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11749816 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature