Facilitators and barriers for electronic social support

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 547-556
Author(s):  
Tiina Yli-Uotila ◽  
Marja Kaunonen ◽  
Liisa Pylkkänen ◽  
Tarja Suominen
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Facilitators And Barriers

scholarly journals Teleconferencing as a Source of Social Support for Older Spousal Caregivers

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 381-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Edel McHugh ◽  
Joseph P. Wherton ◽  
David K. Prendergast ◽  
Brian A. Lawlor
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Support Groups ◽  
Support Group ◽  
Group Processes ◽  
Spousal Caregivers ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Dementia Caregivers ◽  
Pilot Studies ◽  
Facilitators And Barriers ◽  
User Friendly

Teleconferencing is increasingly being used as a medium of delivering social support for dementia caregivers. Further direction is required from pilot studies before the optimal clinical service can be delivered. Following a 6-week pilot support group for spousal caregivers, delivered via teleconferencing software, we interviewed 8 participants for their feedback. Semi-structured interviews were conducted and analyzed using grounded theory analysis. Themes of “group processes” and “barriers,” containing subcategories of “functions of the group,” “responsibilities of facilitators,” and “barriers to communication” were discussed. According to caregivers, successful teleconferencing support groups should acknowledge the caregiver as the dementia expert, allow participants to meet before the deployment of the support group, provide active facilitation and leadership via the researcher, employ user-friendly technologies, and facilitate for the group to self-maintain following the pilot deployment period. These issues should be taken into consideration when designing future teleconferencing applications for caregivers.

scholarly journals Facilitators and Barriers Return to Work in Working People with Serious Mental Illness: A Qualitative Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryam Maddineshat ◽  
Efat Sadeghian ◽  
Ali Ghaleiha ◽  
Mitra Khalafbeigi ◽  
Fatemeh Cheraghi
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Return To Work ◽  
Serious Mental Illness ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Working People ◽  
Facilitators And Barriers

Abstract Background: Many factors affect return to work (RTW) in employees and workers (hereinafter referred to as working people) with serious mental illness (SMI). Identifying these factors can prevent long-term sick leave absence and work disability. Aim: The current study was conducted to identify facilitators and barriers RTW in working people with SMI admitted to a psychiatric hospital and clinic affiliated with the Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Iran.Methods: A qualitative study was conducted in 2020 on 27 participants with SMI, families, supervisors, managers, and mental health team members. The participants were selected through purposive sampling. Data were collected using in-depth and semi-structured interviews. A total of 40 interviews were conducted face-to-face and fallow-up by the telephone. The interviews were based on a conventional content analysis approach.Results: Two main themes emerged, including social support and RTW's challenges. Social support consisted of four main categories: emotional support, information support, instrumental support, and supervisor's flexibility. RTW's challenges consisted of two main categories: personal obstacles and general issues.Conclusion: We found that two facilitator and barrier factors including social support and RTW's challenges affected the RTW process in working people with SMI. Identifying facilitator and barrier factors gives us comprehensive information to use in RTW programs and developing policies RTW in working people with SMI.

scholarly journals 173 A Qualitative Study Exploring Facilitators and Barriers to Engagement in Physical Activity Among Older Irish and French Adults

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (Supplement_3) ◽  
pp. iii17-iii65
Author(s):  
Fintan Sheerin ◽  
Aileen Lynch ◽  
Sean Kilroy ◽  
Monique Epstein ◽  
Ariane Girault ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Health Benefits ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Moderate Intensity ◽  
Facilitators And Barriers

Abstract Background The physical and mental health benefits of physical activity (PA) in older adults have been well-documented. However, a large proportion of older adults worldwide fail to meet the internationally recommended guidelines of 150 minutes of moderate intensity PA per week. Factors associated with engagement in PA among older adults are complex, interacting and wide-reaching, involving individual, social, physical and environmental factors. Thus, to develop preventive lifestyle interventions it is necessary to carefully explore these factors. Methods This qualitative study (as part of a larger funded study to develop a PA-intervention) sought to identify and explore facilitators and barriers to PA in community dwelling older adults (≥65). Focus groups were conducted in Ireland (one) and France (two) and findings were analysed using thematic analysis. Results The main facilitators that emerged from focus group participants (n=33) were: availability of resources; tailored classes facilitated by staff knowledgeable of older adults’ needs; activities that facilitated social support and connectedness; perceived physical and psychological health benefits. Similar factors also influence continued participation in PA, as well as feelings of wellbeing and enjoyment, family support and motivation, although it was noted that it did sometimes require considerable effort. Barriers to engagement in PA included: lack of social support and resources; environmental factors, whether built, social, location or weather-related. Barriers of a more personal nature also emerged and included fear, loss of confidence due to functional changes, and lack of opportunity. Conclusion PA guidelines are but the first step. There is a need to develop implementation strategies at all levels: personal; interpersonal; organisational; community; and public policy, specifically for older adults, that will incorporate the above facilitators and address the above barriers to optimize engagement and maintenance in PA among older adults.

“I’m Going to be Successful Someday”: Women’s Personal Projects to Improve Their Lives, and Implications for Clarifying the Nature of Agency in Criminological Theories of Desistance

2022 ◽  
pp. 155708512110648
Author(s):  
Kayla M. Hoskins
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Women's Agency ◽  
Personal Projects ◽  
Probation And Parole ◽  
Women’S Agency ◽  
Facilitators And Barriers ◽  
Criminological Theories

Women’s agency to construct prosocial lives remains understudied in criminology. This qualitative inquiry explores the nature and outcomes of women’s personal projects, which reflect their agency. In up to five interviews, 401 women on probation and parole explained efforts to improve their lives. Psychological theory on personal projects guided analysis that revealed information on project meaning and facilitators and barriers to project pursuit. Women shared a motivation to avoid trouble and establish prosocial lives. Outcomes were improved by social support and prosocial opportunities. Findings have implications for defining and analyzing agency in desistance research and for correctional responses to women.

scholarly journals Adolescents’ Experiences of Facilitators for and Barriers to Maintaining Exercise 12 Months after a Group-Based Intervention for Depression

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 5427
Author(s):  
Evelina Sunesson ◽  
Emma Haglund ◽  
Ann Bremander ◽  
Håkan Jarbin ◽  
Ingrid Larsson
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Disease Burden ◽  
Exercise Intervention ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Structural Support ◽  
Supportive Environment ◽  
Continuous Support ◽  
Facilitators And Barriers ◽  
Improve Health

Exercise can improve health among adolescents with depression. Understanding facilitators for and barriers to maintaining exercise among adolescents with depression may increase adherence to exercise and consequently improve health. The aim was to explore adolescents’ experiences of facilitators for and barriers to maintaining exercise after a group-based exercise intervention for depression. Interviews (n = 14) were conducted 12 months after the exercise intervention. A qualitative content analysis was used to extract facilitators and barriers. Facilitators for maintaining exercise among adolescents with depression were (1) greater self-esteem by having companionship while exercising and by achieving exercise results and (2) having a supportive environment in terms of accessibility and coaching. Barriers to maintaining exercise were (1) disease burden due to fatigue, social anxiety, and a lack of drive, and (2) lack of a supportive environment including a lack of social support, as well as structural support. In conclusion, facilitating enhanced self-esteem and continuous support for exercising are important for adolescents with depression to maintain exercise. The disease burden of depression is a substantial barrier that needs to be considered to maintain exercise. The findings can contribute to the development of services that promote and coordinate exercise as a treatment among adolescents with depression.

Conflict Avoidance in Old Age

GeroPsych ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lia Oberhauser ◽  
Andreas B. Neubauer ◽  
Eva-Marie Kessler
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Conflict Avoidance ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Adult Lifespan ◽  
Set Up

Abstract. Conflict avoidance increases across the adult lifespan. This cross-sectional study looks at conflict avoidance as part of a mechanism to regulate belongingness needs ( Sheldon, 2011 ). We assumed that older adults perceive more threats to their belongingness when they contemplate their future, and that they preventively react with avoidance coping. We set up a model predicting conflict avoidance that included perceptions of future nonbelonging, termed anticipated loneliness, and other predictors including sociodemographics, indicators of subjective well-being and perceived social support (N = 331, aged 40–87). Anticipated loneliness predicted conflict avoidance above all other predictors and partially mediated the age-association of conflict avoidance. Results suggest that belongingness regulation accounts may deepen our understanding of conflict avoidance in the second half of life.

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