Defining compassion in the digital health age: protocol for a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The notion of compassion and compassionate care is playing an increasingly important role in health professional education and in the delivery of high-quality healthcare. Digital contexts, however, are not considered in the conceptualisation of compassionate care, nor is there guidance on how compassionate care is to be exercised while using digital health technologies. The widespread diffusion of digital health technologies provides new contexts for compassionate care, with both opportunities for new forms and instantiations of compassion as well as new challenges. How compassion is both understood and enacted within this evolving, digital realm has not been synthesised.

Methods and analysis

This scoping review protocol follows Arksey and O'Malley's methodology

SUBMITTER: Wiljer D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6398782 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature