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Abstract
Aim: To review and compare Area-Based Compassionate Communities with respect to their contextual characteristics, development processes and evaluations.
Design: A systematic integrative review with narrative synthesis. Registered in Prospero: CRD42020173406.
Data sources: Five databases (Pubmed, Web of Science, PsycInfo, Embase and Scopus) were consulted, consisting of publications from 1999 onwards. This was supplemented with grey literature and author-provided documentation.
Results: Twenty articles were drawn from the peer reviewed search, three from grey literature and two from author-provided documentation. Notwithstanding the substantial variation in what is reported, all Area-Based Compassionate Community initiatives focus on multiple action areas of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion. Variability in their contextual and developmental characteristics is high. Only a minority of initiatives have been evaluated and although conclusions are generally positive, what is evaluated often does not match their aims. Attaining support from policy makers can help in obtaining funding early in the project. Strengthening people's social networks was a recurring community engagement strategy.
Conclusions: While the concept of Area-Based Compassionate Communities is gaining momentum as a new paradigm for the creation of palliative care capacity across society, only a handful of initiatives have been described. The lack of formal evaluations of their envisaged health benefits indicates a pressing need for rigorous research about ongoing and future initiatives.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 3 |
Pages (from-to) | 422-442 |
Number of pages | 21 |
Journal | Palliative Medicine |
Volume | 36 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 30 Mar 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research is part of the programme ‘CAPACITY: Flanders Programme to Develop Capacity in Palliative Care Across Society’, a collaboration between the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Ghent University and the Catholic University Leuven, Belgium. This study is supported by a grant from the Research Foundation – Flanders, file number S002219N.
Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research is part of the programme ‘CAPACITY: Flanders Programme to Develop Capacity in Palliative Care Across Society’, a collaboration between the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Ghent University and the Catholic University Leuven, Belgium. This study is supported by a grant from the Research Foundation – Flanders, file number S002219N.
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Keywords
- Compassionate city
- compassionate community
- health promotion
- healthy cities
- integrative review
- palliative care
- public health
- systematic review
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IRP16: Research and Social Change towards Compassionate Communities (RESOCO)
Deliens, L., De Donder, L., Cohen, J., Chambaere, K., Dury, S., Dierckx, E., Verté, D., Schotte, C., Theuns, P., Baetens, I., De Gieter, S., Lombaerts, K., De Backer, F., Spruyt, B., Van Droogenbroeck, F., Vanroelen, C., Ryckewaert, M. & Vanderstichelen, S.
1/11/19 → 31/10/26
Project: Fundamental
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SRP4: Strategic Research Programme: End-of-life in cancer and non-cancer patients: public health, health services and clinical research. Addressing present and future challenges in palliative care.
Deliens, L., Cohen, J., Van den Block, L., Pardon, K., Deliens, L., Cohen, J., Van den Block, L., Chambaere, K., Bilsen, J., Deschepper, R., Rietjens, J. A. C., Sterckx, S., Theuns, P., Vander Stichele, R. & Mortier, F.
1/11/12 → 31/10/24
Project: Fundamental
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Qualitative data Area-Based Compassionate Communities: A systematic integrative review of existing initiatives worldwide
Quintiens, B. (Creator), D'Eer, L. (Creator), Deliens, L. (Creator), Van den Block, L. (Creator), Chambaere, K. (Creator), De Donder, L. (Creator), Smets, T. (Creator) & Cohen, J. (Creator), Zenodo, 1 Mar 2022
DOI: 10.1177/02692163211067363, https://zenodo.org/records/14650724
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