Resilience of patients with chronic diseases: A systematic review

• Published in: Health & social care in the community Vol. 27; no. 4; pp. 797 - 807
• Main Authors: Kim, Geun Myun, Lim, Ji Young, Kim, Eun Joo, Park, Seung‐Min
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Hindawi Limited 01.07.2019
• Subjects: Cancer; Cardiovascular disease; Cardiovascular diseases; Chronic Disease - psychology; Chronic illnesses; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; COPD; Definitions; Diabetes; diabetes mellitus; Disease management; Evidence-based medicine; Health psychology; heart diseases; Humans; Intervention; Literature reviews; Patients; Resilience; Resilience, Psychological; Stroke; Systematic review; cancer; diabetes mellitus; resilience; stroke; heart diseases; COPD
• ISSN: 0966-0410; 1365-2524
• DOI: 10.1111/hsc.12620

The purpose of this research was to contribute to the development of a resilience‐promoting programme for patients with chronic diseases. A systematic review of literature concerning resilience interventions for patients with chronic diseases was conducted by searching PubMed (including Medline), Science Direct, Web of Science, PsycARTICLES, CINAHL Plus, Embase, and the Cochrane Database for articles featuring the terms “resilience,” “resiliency,” “resilient,” “cancer,” “stroke,” “heart disease,” “diabetes” and “COPD” and published between 8 January 2017 and 15 January 2017. We included all English studies relevant to the topic; however, we excluded: (1) nonrandomised controlled trials and (2) those that mentioned the term “resilience” but did not apply it in their analysis. Seventeen studies—10 on cancer, four on cardiovascular diseases and three on diabetes—were deemed suitable for analysis. We found that, in these studies, (1) diverse definitions of resilience were applied, (2) various intervention durations were used and (3) complex programmes were applied within the resilience‐improving programmes. Our research encourages efforts to operationalise the construct of resilience, so it can be applied in clinical settings, and for the development of more systematic intervention programmes.