Supervision, support and mentoring interventions for health practitioners in rural and remote contexts: an integrative review and thematic synthesis of the literature to identify mechanisms for successful outcomes
| Autor: | Dianne Boxall, Julia Coyle, Susan Nancarrow, Rodney Pope, Anna Moran, Jennifer Young |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Rural Population
synthesis Public Administration Service delivery framework Health Personnel health practitioner Psychological intervention mechanism Supervision Health administration Nursing Humans Medicine Health Services Needs and Demand Medical education business.industry Research Mentors Professional development Health services research Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Clinical supervision Leadership Systematic review Organization and Administration Workforce Rural Health Services rural business Delivery of Health Care professional development |
| Zdroj: | Human Resources for Health |
| ISSN: | 1478-4491 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/1478-4491-12-10 |
| Popis: | Objective To identify mechanisms for the successful implementation of support strategies for health-care practitioners in rural and remote contexts. Design This is an integrative review and thematic synthesis of the empirical literature that examines support interventions for health-care practitioners in rural and remote contexts. Results This review includes 43 papers that evaluated support strategies for the rural and remote health workforce. Interventions were predominantly training and education programmes with limited evaluations of supervision and mentoring interventions. The mechanisms associated with successful outcomes included: access to appropriate and adequate training, skills and knowledge for the support intervention; accessible and adequate resources; active involvement of stakeholders in programme design, implementation and evaluation; a needs analysis prior to the intervention; external support, organisation, facilitation and/or coordination of the programme; marketing of the programme; organisational commitment; appropriate mode of delivery; leadership; and regular feedback and evaluation of the programme. Conclusion Through a synthesis of the literature, this research has identified a number of mechanisms that are associated with successful support interventions for health-care practitioners in rural and remote contexts. This research utilised a methodology developed for studying complex interventions in response to the perceived limitations of traditional systematic reviews. This synthesis of the evidence will provide decision-makers at all levels with a collection of mechanisms that can assist the development and implementation of support strategies for staff in rural and remote contexts. |
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