The Role of the Psychosocial Dimension in the Improvement of Quality of Care: A Systematic Review
The aim of our systematic review was to analyse the published literature on the psychosocial dimension of care in family medicine and its relationship with quality of care. We wanted to find out whether there is any evidence on the psychosocial approach in (family) medicine. The recommended bio-psyc...
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| description | The aim of our systematic review was to analyse the published literature on the psychosocial dimension of care in family medicine and its relationship with quality of care. We wanted to find out whether there is any evidence on the psychosocial approach in (family) medicine. The recommended bio-psycho-social approach, besides the biomedical model of illness, takes into account several co-influencing psychological, sociological and existential factors. An online search of nine different databases used Boolean operators and the following selection criteria: the paper contained information on the holistic approach, quality indicators, family medicine, patient-centred care and/or the bio-psycho-social model of treatment. We retrieved 743 papers, of which 36 fulfilled our inclusion criteria. Including the psychosocial dimension in patient management has been found to be useful in the prevention and treatment of physical and psychiatric illness, resulting in improved social functioning and patient satisfaction, reduced health care disparities, and reduced annual medical care charges. The themes of patient-centred, behavioural or psychosocial medicine were quite well presented in several papers. We could not find any conclusive evidence of the impact of a holistic biopsycho-social-approach. Weak and variable definitions of psychosocial dimensions, a low number of welldesigned intervention studies, and low numbers of included patients limited our conclusions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7b2f3d7a6650477bac5fc242ca97ae932022-12-21T22:48:22ZengSciendoSlovenian Journal of Public Health1854-24762016-03-01551869510.1515/sjph-2016-0004sjph-2016-0004The Role of the Psychosocial Dimension in the Improvement of Quality of Care: A Systematic ReviewMakivić Irena0Kersnik † Janko1Klemenc-Ketiš Zalika2University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, Poljanski nasip 58, 1000 Ljubljana, SloveniaUniversity of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, Poljanski nasip 58, 1000 Ljubljana, SloveniaUniversity of Maribor, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, Taborska ul. 8, 2000 Maribor, SloveniaThe aim of our systematic review was to analyse the published literature on the psychosocial dimension of care in family medicine and its relationship with quality of care. We wanted to find out whether there is any evidence on the psychosocial approach in (family) medicine. The recommended bio-psycho-social approach, besides the biomedical model of illness, takes into account several co-influencing psychological, sociological and existential factors. An online search of nine different databases used Boolean operators and the following selection criteria: the paper contained information on the holistic approach, quality indicators, family medicine, patient-centred care and/or the bio-psycho-social model of treatment. We retrieved 743 papers, of which 36 fulfilled our inclusion criteria. Including the psychosocial dimension in patient management has been found to be useful in the prevention and treatment of physical and psychiatric illness, resulting in improved social functioning and patient satisfaction, reduced health care disparities, and reduced annual medical care charges. The themes of patient-centred, behavioural or psychosocial medicine were quite well presented in several papers. We could not find any conclusive evidence of the impact of a holistic biopsycho-social-approach. Weak and variable definitions of psychosocial dimensions, a low number of welldesigned intervention studies, and low numbers of included patients limited our conclusions.https://doi.org/10.1515/sjph-2016-0004general practicesocial problemspsychosocial carequality of health carereviewssplošna medicinasocialne težavepsihosocialna obravnavakakovost zdravstvene oskrbepregled literature |
| spellingShingle | Makivić Irena Kersnik † Janko Klemenc-Ketiš Zalika The Role of the Psychosocial Dimension in the Improvement of Quality of Care: A Systematic Review Slovenian Journal of Public Health general practice social problems psychosocial care quality of health care reviews splošna medicina socialne težave psihosocialna obravnava kakovost zdravstvene oskrbe pregled literature |
| title | The Role of the Psychosocial Dimension in the Improvement of Quality of Care: A Systematic Review |
| title_full | The Role of the Psychosocial Dimension in the Improvement of Quality of Care: A Systematic Review |
| title_fullStr | The Role of the Psychosocial Dimension in the Improvement of Quality of Care: A Systematic Review |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Role of the Psychosocial Dimension in the Improvement of Quality of Care: A Systematic Review |
| title_short | The Role of the Psychosocial Dimension in the Improvement of Quality of Care: A Systematic Review |
| title_sort | role of the psychosocial dimension in the improvement of quality of care a systematic review |
| topic | general practice social problems psychosocial care quality of health care reviews splošna medicina socialne težave psihosocialna obravnava kakovost zdravstvene oskrbe pregled literature |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1515/sjph-2016-0004 |
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