Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, NY.
University of Connecticut School of Nursing, Storrs, CT; Department of Pediatrics, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Storrs, CT.
Nurs Outlook. 2024 Jul-Aug;72(4):102195. doi: 10.1016/j.outlook.2024.102195. Epub 2024 May 28.
Biosocial approaches in nursing research have largely focused on the ways that social determinants of health influence individual-level outcomes, including symptom management, family and social support, and educational interventions.
Theoretical, methodological, and practical strategies are needed to expand current biosocial methods for nursing science and focus on upstream, structural determinants of health and the policies that underlie health inequities.
This paper summarizes presentations given at the 2023 Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science Advanced Methods Conference, Biosocial Methods to Advance Health Equity, in a panel titled "Individual, community, systems and policy related to biosocial methods."
Nurses are uniquely positioned to examine upstream, structural determinants of health by leveraging expertise in biosocial methods, collaborating with interdisciplinary researchers and community members, and advocating for policy change. By conducting theory-grounded biosocial research, nurse researchers can significantly advance scientific knowledge and promote health equity for individuals and communities.
Nurse scientists are conducting research using biosocial methods and provide recommendations for expansion of this approach in the field.
护理研究中的生物社会方法主要侧重于社会健康决定因素如何影响个体层面的结果,包括症状管理、家庭和社会支持以及教育干预。
需要理论、方法和实践策略来扩展当前护理科学的生物社会方法,关注健康的上游结构决定因素和造成健康不平等的政策。
本文总结了在 2023 年护理科学促进理事会高级方法会议上题为“与生物社会方法相关的个人、社区、系统和政策”小组讨论会上的演讲,该会议的主题是“推进健康公平的生物社会方法”。
护士可以通过利用生物社会方法方面的专业知识、与跨学科研究人员和社区成员合作以及倡导政策变革,来检查健康的上游结构决定因素,这是他们的独特优势。通过进行基于理论的生物社会研究,护士研究人员可以极大地推进科学知识,并促进个人和社区的健康公平。
护士科学家正在使用生物社会方法进行研究,并为该领域该方法的扩展提供建议。