Promoting the empowerment and emancipation of community-dwelling older adults with chronic multimorbidity through a home visiting programme: a hermeneutical study.

Autor: Dobarrio-Sanz I; Department of Nursing, Physiotherapy and Medicine, University of Almeria, Almeria, 04120, Spain., Chica-Pérez A; Emera Nursing and Residential Home for Older Adults, Almería, 04007, Spain. acp819@inlumine.ual.es., López-Entrambasaguas OM; Nursing Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Jaén, Jaén, Spain., Martínez-Linares JM; Nursing Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Granada, Granada, Spain., Granero-Molina J; Department of Nursing, Physiotherapy and Medicine, University of Almeria, Almeria, 04120, Spain.; Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud. Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile., Hernández-Padilla JM; Department of Nursing, Physiotherapy and Medicine, University of Almeria, Almeria, 04120, Spain.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: BMC nursing [BMC Nurs] 2024 Jun 28; Vol. 23 (1), pp. 444. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jun 28.
DOI: 10.1186/s12912-024-02117-2
Abstrakt: Introduction: Nurse-led preventive home visiting programmes can improve health-related outcomes in community-dwelling older adults, but they have not proven to be cost-effective. Home visiting programmes led by nursing students could be a viable alternative. However, we do not know how community-dwelling older adults with chronic multimorbidity experience home visiting programmes in which nursing students carry out health promotion activities. The aim of the study is to understand how community-dwelling older adults with chronic multimorbidity experience a home visiting programme led by nursing students.
Methods: A qualitative study based on Gadamer's hermeneutics. Thirty-one community-dwelling older adults with chronic multimorbidity were interviewed in-depth. Fleming's method for conducting hermeneutic, Gadamerian-based studies was followed and ATLAS.ti software was used for data analysis.
Results: Two main themes were generated: (1) 'The empowering experience of a personalised health-promoting intervention', and (2) 'The emancipatory effect of going beyond standardised self-care education'.
Conclusions: The home visiting programme contributed to the community-dwelling older adults feeling more empowered to engage in health-promoting self-care behaviours. It also improved the older adults' sense of autonomy and self-efficacy, while reducing their loneliness and addressing some perceived shortcomings of the healthcare system.
Clinical Relevance: Older adults participating in a home visiting programme led by nursing students feel empowered to implement self-care behaviours, which has a positive impact on their perceived health status. Nurse leaders and nursing regulatory bodies could collaborate with nursing faculties to integrate preventive home visiting programmes led by nursing students into the services offered to community-dwelling older adults with chronic multimorbidity.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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