OBJECTIVES This review aims to understand what elements of psychosocial interventions are associated with improved outcomes for people with dementia to inform implementation in care homes. DESIGN A systematic review of qualitative and quantitative intervention studies was undertaken. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR INCLUDED STUDIES We included primary research studies evaluating psychosocial inter...

background: this study provided the theoretical basis for program development through a new conceptualization of the concept of family physician related health care. methods: critical interpretive synthesis (cis) was used to carry out qualitative analysis and synthesis of the literature from 2006 until 2015. at the beginning of cis, the search strategy was designed to access electronic database...

BACKGROUND The inclusion of qualitative studies in systematic reviews poses methodological challenges. This paper presents worked examples of two methods of data synthesis (textual narrative and thematic), used in relation to one review, with the aim of enabling researchers to consider the strength of different approaches. METHODS A systematic review of lay perspectives of infant size and gro...

growing demand for wheat grain with optimal technological parameters results in looking for the possibilities of accurately meeting the plant needs. environmental conditions in the surroundings of germinating grains can be improved by application of humic preparations. qualitative features of grain can be also changed by foliar application of potassium, which is the activator of enzymes catalys...

AIMS The purposes of this paper are to examine the issues surrounding current changes in grounded theory (GT) research methods and to explicate an innovative synthesis technique to GT data analysis. BACKGROUND In recent years there has been a steady rise in the number of published research reports that use the GT method. However, this growing body of GT literature has been criticized for its ...

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Decision Support System (DSS) aims to provide effective support for solving unstructured, ill-structured or wicked problems as its initial emergence in the late 1960s. The ever-lasting complexity which exists in social world brings a great deal of uncertainties in human activities, mainly for decision makers who are in morass of overwhelming flow of data, information and knowledge but still lac...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to search and synthesize qualitative studies exploring the perspectives of older people living in long-term care facilities and of their family members about advance care planning (ACP) discussions. METHODS The enhancing transparency in reporting the synthesis of qualitative research (ENTREQ) framework was used to guide the review and report its results. PubMed, CINAHL, and...

It is well known that recruitment to trials can be difficult. A number of in-depth qualitative studies have been published that have examined patient experiences of recruitment and participation in trials. To understand the collective insights from these studies, we undertook a meta-ethnography (a formal synthesis method for constructing interpretations cumulatively across qualitative studies) ...

The effectiveness of memory rehabilitation based on randomised controlled trials and meta-analyses has been inconclusive, but patient reports based on qualitative studies have been largely positive. We conducted a meta-synthesis of qualitative studies of group-based memory rehabilitation programmes for people with neurological conditions. Based on systematic searches of electronic databases and...