Pub Date : 2025-09-23DOI: 10.1080/00981389.2025.2563554
Melih Çamcı,Şeyma Yüsra Soğanda,Muhammed Fatih Baran,Muhammed Şafi Alpaslan
This retrospective cohort study examined social work interventions in the emergency department (ED) of a high-capacity tertiary care center in Türkiye, between February 2019 and February 2024. Data from 714 adult patients referred to the hospital's social work unit were analyzed. Of these patients, 54.8% were female, the mean age was 46.3 years, and over 40% required multidisciplinary interventions. The most common diagnoses were lack of family support and homelessness (35.0%), physical disorders (28.7%), and assault (20.0%). The leading interventions were psychosocial support (40.8%), facilitation of housing and transportation (32.8%), and contact with relatives (25.1%). A significant difference was found between daytime and nighttime consultations, with unmet needs more frequent during off-hours (p < .001). Among survivors of the 2023 Türkiye earthquakes, 96.7% required hospitalization or referral to support services, underscoring the importance of post-disaster hospital-based social work in addressing ongoing psychosocial needs. These results emphasize the role of ED social workers in meeting urgent psychosocial needs, supporting disaster-affected patients, and ensuring continuity of care, thereby enhancing patient outcomes, improving care continuity, and optimizing healthcare resource utilization. Policies ensuring 24/7 social work coverage in EDs may further strengthen these benefits.
{"title":"Social work in emergency departments: A multi-dimensional analysis of social determinants, interventions, and outcomes.","authors":"Melih Çamcı,Şeyma Yüsra Soğanda,Muhammed Fatih Baran,Muhammed Şafi Alpaslan","doi":"10.1080/00981389.2025.2563554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00981389.2025.2563554","url":null,"abstract":"This retrospective cohort study examined social work interventions in the emergency department (ED) of a high-capacity tertiary care center in Türkiye, between February 2019 and February 2024. Data from 714 adult patients referred to the hospital's social work unit were analyzed. Of these patients, 54.8% were female, the mean age was 46.3 years, and over 40% required multidisciplinary interventions. The most common diagnoses were lack of family support and homelessness (35.0%), physical disorders (28.7%), and assault (20.0%). The leading interventions were psychosocial support (40.8%), facilitation of housing and transportation (32.8%), and contact with relatives (25.1%). A significant difference was found between daytime and nighttime consultations, with unmet needs more frequent during off-hours (p < .001). Among survivors of the 2023 Türkiye earthquakes, 96.7% required hospitalization or referral to support services, underscoring the importance of post-disaster hospital-based social work in addressing ongoing psychosocial needs. These results emphasize the role of ED social workers in meeting urgent psychosocial needs, supporting disaster-affected patients, and ensuring continuity of care, thereby enhancing patient outcomes, improving care continuity, and optimizing healthcare resource utilization. Policies ensuring 24/7 social work coverage in EDs may further strengthen these benefits.","PeriodicalId":47519,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Health Care","volume":"41 1","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145116743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-09-04DOI: 10.1080/00981389.2025.2555293
Isabel Narciso,Sara Albuquerque,Sara Nunes
This study sought to explore and understand healthcare professionals' meanings and experiences with regard to the addiction concept, treatment and recovery. Semi-structured interviews with 18 healthcare professionals in the area of addiction were conducted: nine nurses, six psychologists, a psychiatrist, a social worker and a psychosocial technician. Based on a qualitative methodology, a thematic analysis was conducted using the NVivo software. A global consensus regarding the understanding of addiction was observed: as a disease and on the role of intrinsic motivation for intervention success; and as a severe problem of mental health with a physical impact. Addiction as also conceptualized as a multi-determined process as well as entailing a multiplicity of effects implying suffering and destruction. Regarding treatment main assumptions toward a recovery trajectory: unique interventions, respect for individuals' needs and choices, contextualizing the problem and the person, family and network involvement, collaborative context, and multidisciplinary intervention. By portraying a multidisciplinary perspective and close to the lived experience in the field, this study can contribute to a better understanding of the beliefs and attributions regarding addiction and treatment and, consequently, inform the general population as well as the services providing care to clients.
{"title":"Healthcare professionals' understanding of addiction, treatment and recovery.","authors":"Isabel Narciso,Sara Albuquerque,Sara Nunes","doi":"10.1080/00981389.2025.2555293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00981389.2025.2555293","url":null,"abstract":"This study sought to explore and understand healthcare professionals' meanings and experiences with regard to the addiction concept, treatment and recovery. Semi-structured interviews with 18 healthcare professionals in the area of addiction were conducted: nine nurses, six psychologists, a psychiatrist, a social worker and a psychosocial technician. Based on a qualitative methodology, a thematic analysis was conducted using the NVivo software. A global consensus regarding the understanding of addiction was observed: as a disease and on the role of intrinsic motivation for intervention success; and as a severe problem of mental health with a physical impact. Addiction as also conceptualized as a multi-determined process as well as entailing a multiplicity of effects implying suffering and destruction. Regarding treatment main assumptions toward a recovery trajectory: unique interventions, respect for individuals' needs and choices, contextualizing the problem and the person, family and network involvement, collaborative context, and multidisciplinary intervention. By portraying a multidisciplinary perspective and close to the lived experience in the field, this study can contribute to a better understanding of the beliefs and attributions regarding addiction and treatment and, consequently, inform the general population as well as the services providing care to clients.","PeriodicalId":47519,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Health Care","volume":"16 1","pages":"1-28"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144995887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-09-04DOI: 10.1080/00981389.2025.2555294
Yong-Mi Kim,Chie Noyori-Corbett
Diabetes impacts approximately 37.3 million Americans. The majority of HbA1c studies focused on independent variables while there are possibilities of some variables serving as an antecedent to other variables. Furthermore, most of the research has been skewed toward either objective or subjective data, thus overlooking the possible importance of the use of both data sources in tandem. As such, the purpose of this study is to investigate factors impacting glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels both directly and indirectly with the use of both objective and subjective sources of information. The data are obtained from 2017 to 2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). IBM SPSS Amos 29 was used for the purpose of structural equation modeling to investigate paths related to HbA1c levels. The finding shows that diets impact HbA1c levels directly and diet and exercise impact HbA1c indirectly through BMI. Diets alone can directly reduce HbA1c levels, but exercise alone cannot reduce HbA1c levels. Unexpectedly, socioeconomic construct does not have a direct impact on diet or exercise. However, as expected, the depression construct has a significant effect on both exercise and diet.
{"title":"The impact of psychosocial determinants of HbA1c level: Implications for social work care management.","authors":"Yong-Mi Kim,Chie Noyori-Corbett","doi":"10.1080/00981389.2025.2555294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00981389.2025.2555294","url":null,"abstract":"Diabetes impacts approximately 37.3 million Americans. The majority of HbA1c studies focused on independent variables while there are possibilities of some variables serving as an antecedent to other variables. Furthermore, most of the research has been skewed toward either objective or subjective data, thus overlooking the possible importance of the use of both data sources in tandem. As such, the purpose of this study is to investigate factors impacting glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels both directly and indirectly with the use of both objective and subjective sources of information. The data are obtained from 2017 to 2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). IBM SPSS Amos 29 was used for the purpose of structural equation modeling to investigate paths related to HbA1c levels. The finding shows that diets impact HbA1c levels directly and diet and exercise impact HbA1c indirectly through BMI. Diets alone can directly reduce HbA1c levels, but exercise alone cannot reduce HbA1c levels. Unexpectedly, socioeconomic construct does not have a direct impact on diet or exercise. However, as expected, the depression construct has a significant effect on both exercise and diet.","PeriodicalId":47519,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Health Care","volume":"35 1","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144995888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-08-28DOI: 10.1080/00981389.2025.2552661
Patricia L. Samson, David Nicholas, Tiffany Gloeckler, Debra Samek, Natalie Zawaski
{"title":"From theory to praxis: conceptualizing communities of practice for social workers in healthcare settings","authors":"Patricia L. Samson, David Nicholas, Tiffany Gloeckler, Debra Samek, Natalie Zawaski","doi":"10.1080/00981389.2025.2552661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00981389.2025.2552661","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47519,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Health Care","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144915385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-08-27DOI: 10.1080/00981389.2025.2552656
Kimberly E. Giamportone
{"title":"Applying Layder’s theory of social domains to assess and address healthcare interprofessional team cohesion","authors":"Kimberly E. Giamportone","doi":"10.1080/00981389.2025.2552656","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00981389.2025.2552656","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47519,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Health Care","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144910582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-07-30DOI: 10.1080/00981389.2025.2535286
Elizabeth Peffer Talbot, Yeon-Shim Lee, Erna Dinata, Sukyung Yoon, Soonhee Roh, Johanna Tietze
{"title":"Cognitive decline, depression, and protective factors among middle aged and older Indigenous women","authors":"Elizabeth Peffer Talbot, Yeon-Shim Lee, Erna Dinata, Sukyung Yoon, Soonhee Roh, Johanna Tietze","doi":"10.1080/00981389.2025.2535286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00981389.2025.2535286","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47519,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Health Care","volume":"68 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144747430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-07-20DOI: 10.1080/00981389.2025.2535290
Zhiyu Chen,Jingguo Chen
Many LGBTQ+ communities have been actively campaigning to influence their countries to promote equality and protect human rights, including the right to same-sex marriage. However, the macro environment in China, including public policy and social attitudes, heavily influences such activism, which is progressing almost silently. The social environment shaped by traditional values still discriminates against and marginalizes sexual minorities, making it challenging to establish marriage equality. With literature review, this paper argues that grassroots LGBTQ+ communities should strengthen communication through non-confrontational online networks.
{"title":"China's macro environment and LGBTQ+ rights: The benefits of an online support community to promote marriage equality.","authors":"Zhiyu Chen,Jingguo Chen","doi":"10.1080/00981389.2025.2535290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00981389.2025.2535290","url":null,"abstract":"Many LGBTQ+ communities have been actively campaigning to influence their countries to promote equality and protect human rights, including the right to same-sex marriage. However, the macro environment in China, including public policy and social attitudes, heavily influences such activism, which is progressing almost silently. The social environment shaped by traditional values still discriminates against and marginalizes sexual minorities, making it challenging to establish marriage equality. With literature review, this paper argues that grassroots LGBTQ+ communities should strengthen communication through non-confrontational online networks.","PeriodicalId":47519,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Health Care","volume":"40 1","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144669306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-05-21DOI: 10.1080/00981389.2025.2506402
Mira Patterson,Tara Dowd,Lynelle Watts,David Hodgson
This article explores the development of an outcome framework for social workers in a health service called Rehabilitation in the Home (RITH). The lack of established outcome measures for social workers prompted a quality improvement (QI) project that led to the development of this research. A literature review was conducted to identify other outcome measures in health and social work-related outcome measures, and consultations with social workers and health department services were carried out. A social work outcomes framework was developed and trialed, demonstrating the effectiveness of the social work service interventions, as well as the utility of outcomes measures for social work health services. In this article, we begin by examining the role of outcome measures in social work within an evidence-based practice framework, before describing the process for developing the measures. We present evidence of the outcomes data collected to illustrate the framework. This article adds to the literature on outcomes reporting on social work interventions in health and rehabilitation practice settings, particularly with identifying and responding to risk.
{"title":"Developing and trialling a social work outcomes framework in a community rehabilitation health setting.","authors":"Mira Patterson,Tara Dowd,Lynelle Watts,David Hodgson","doi":"10.1080/00981389.2025.2506402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00981389.2025.2506402","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the development of an outcome framework for social workers in a health service called Rehabilitation in the Home (RITH). The lack of established outcome measures for social workers prompted a quality improvement (QI) project that led to the development of this research. A literature review was conducted to identify other outcome measures in health and social work-related outcome measures, and consultations with social workers and health department services were carried out. A social work outcomes framework was developed and trialed, demonstrating the effectiveness of the social work service interventions, as well as the utility of outcomes measures for social work health services. In this article, we begin by examining the role of outcome measures in social work within an evidence-based practice framework, before describing the process for developing the measures. We present evidence of the outcomes data collected to illustrate the framework. This article adds to the literature on outcomes reporting on social work interventions in health and rehabilitation practice settings, particularly with identifying and responding to risk.","PeriodicalId":47519,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Health Care","volume":"131 1","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144103608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-05-17DOI: 10.1080/00981389.2025.2506395
Zeynep Başerer Berber,Melike Pak,Çağla Taşci
This cross-sectional study aims to examine the relationships between psychological resilience, gratitude, and depression levels of patients with chronic diseases (cancer, cardiovascular, and kidney diseases) in the context of medical social work practice. A survey model, one of the quantitative research methods, was used in the study. The sample consisted of 160 patients with chronic diseases who were regularly followed up for treatment in the polyclinics of Oltu State Hospital and Erzurum City Hospital operating in Türkiye. The hierarchical logistic regression model was used in the analysis of the data. According to the results, psychological resilience was the strongest predictor of depression in chronic patients, even when some sociodemographic and disease-related variables were controlled. While gratitude was found to have depression risk-reducing effects, some of this may be related to age. Also, high dependence levels and previous depression diagnosis were determined as important risk factors against depression. Medical social workers may benefit from interventions aimed at increasing psychological resilience and gratitude in the prevention and treatment of depression in patients with chronic diseases.
{"title":"Associations between depression, psychological resilience, and gratitude levels of patients with chronic diseases: Implications for medical social work practice.","authors":"Zeynep Başerer Berber,Melike Pak,Çağla Taşci","doi":"10.1080/00981389.2025.2506395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00981389.2025.2506395","url":null,"abstract":"This cross-sectional study aims to examine the relationships between psychological resilience, gratitude, and depression levels of patients with chronic diseases (cancer, cardiovascular, and kidney diseases) in the context of medical social work practice. A survey model, one of the quantitative research methods, was used in the study. The sample consisted of 160 patients with chronic diseases who were regularly followed up for treatment in the polyclinics of Oltu State Hospital and Erzurum City Hospital operating in Türkiye. The hierarchical logistic regression model was used in the analysis of the data. According to the results, psychological resilience was the strongest predictor of depression in chronic patients, even when some sociodemographic and disease-related variables were controlled. While gratitude was found to have depression risk-reducing effects, some of this may be related to age. Also, high dependence levels and previous depression diagnosis were determined as important risk factors against depression. Medical social workers may benefit from interventions aimed at increasing psychological resilience and gratitude in the prevention and treatment of depression in patients with chronic diseases.","PeriodicalId":47519,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Health Care","volume":"33 1","pages":"1-22"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144083362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-05-06DOI: 10.1080/00981389.2025.2491337
Claudia Rappaport
Since the 1970s much attention has been directed in the professional literature to burnout and compassion fatigue in social workers. This article will present documentation that as early as 1908 Dr. Richard Cabot, who started the first hospital social work department at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston, was concerned about the same phenomenon, though he referred to it as "breathlessness." He explored what he considered to be common causes of this difficulty as well as some possible remedies for overcoming it. Primary research conducted in the collected professional papers of the late Ida Cannon, located in the Social Service Department (SSD) at MGH (Rappaport, 1996), revealed his level of concern about this phenomenon, which he shared with Ida Cannon, Director of the SSD. Cabot's conceptualization has many points in common with what has been discussed since then as social work burnout and compassion fatigue. This adds significantly to our understanding of how long this problem has occurred in social workers in the medical field and how long we have been seeking solutions for it.
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