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Impact of social work services on the resilience of migrant children
- Authors:
- HUANG Dan, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Research on Social Work Practice, 32(3), 2022, pp.345-355.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Purpose: This study examines the effectiveness of social work services designed to enhance resilience among migrant children in urban China. Methods: the researchers selected four primary schools (i.e., two public and two private migrant schools) in the X District, Guangzhou City, China. A total of 461 valid samples were surveyed for analysis. Three regression models were employed to explain the influence of social work services on students' resilience. Results: Social work services exert a positive and significant influence on the resilience of migrant children. Concretely, social work services in terms of educational activities, interest activities, and psychological counseling affected the resilience of migrant children after controlling for the impact of social capital, self-efficacy, and individual and household economic status. Moreover, students who participated in educational activities exhibit superior resilience. Discussion: Social work organizations should provide more participation opportunities and diversified service items to migrant children. (Edited publisher abstract)
Understanding the mechanisms underlying the effects of loneliness on vulnerability to fraud among older adults
- Authors:
- WEN Jing, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect, 34(1), 2022, pp.1-19.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The current study aimed to clarify the relationships among loneliness, susceptibility to persuasion, self-control, and vulnerability to fraud among older adults. Especially, we wanted to investigate whether susceptibility to persuasion mediates the association between loneliness and vulnerability to fraud, and whether self-control moderates the relationship in this process. A moderated mediation model was examined with 252 Chinese older adults (Mage = 67.94, SD = 6.27) who completed questionnaires regarding loneliness, susceptibility to persuasion, self-control, and vulnerability to fraud. The results revealed that loneliness significantly predicted older adults’ vulnerability to fraud and susceptibility to persuasion partially mediated this relationship. Moreover, this mediating effect was only significant for older adults with low self-control. These findings enrich our understanding of how loneliness affects older adults’ vulnerability to fraud and provide practical guidance for establishing protections against fraud targeting older adults. (Edited publisher abstract)
Integrating health and care in China: lessons learned and future outlook
- Authors:
- HU Linlin, et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Integrated Care, 21(S2), 2021, p.18. Online only
- Publisher:
- International Foundation for Integrated Care
Background: An aging population is one of the key drivers reshaping health care systems. In China, the complex needs of its huge aging population require integration across the health and care sectors. Policies and progress: Over the past decade, the central government of China promulgated a series of policies to promote the establishment of aftercare facilities, specify approaches to integrate health and care service delivery at institutional and community levels, pilot long-term care insurance (LTCI) as a funding mechanism, and reform administrative structures in favor of integration. Progress has been made towards organizational and clinical integration of service delivery both at institutional and community levels. LTCI has been introduced as the financing mechanism covering long term care services. Discussions and Conclusions: The experiences of China in the integration of health and care could be summarized as a top-down approach in policy formulation and implementation, the significant employment of pilots and demonstrations, and the activation of market forces. However, China is still in the initial stage of integrating health and care and is faced with system-level challenges in its financing, management, and workforce, and faces technical challenges, such as a lack of tools, and standards. In the future, these issues need to be addressed.
Baseline survey of China social work longitudinal study 2019: design and implementation
- Authors:
- YUAN Yiqing, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Research on Social Work Practice, 31(5), 2021, pp.513-519.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Purpose: The China Social Work Longitudinal Study (CSWLS) aims to provide the first national longitudinal multilevel dataset that contains comprehensive domains to monitor the development of social work in China. This study presents the design and implementation of the baseline survey in 2019. Methods: The CSWLS includes three scholarly themes of professionalization, governmentality, and institutionalization, which are reflected in comprehensive questionnaires on social workers and social work agencies. The CSWLS is a longitudinal panel study that has multilevel datasets of social workers nested within agencies that are selected by a multistage sampling strategy. Results: The baseline survey collected 979 agency questionnaires and 5,965 social worker questionnaires in 56 cities, holding the validity rates of 98.59% and 99.92% respectively. The sample had certain national representativeness when comparing to existed national data in China. Conclusions: The CSWLS will become a critical tool for government officials, professional leaders, and academic researchers. (Edited publisher abstract)
Service delivery reforms for Asian ageing societies: a cross-country study between Japan, South Korea, China, Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines
- Authors:
- NODA Shinichiro, et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Integrated Care, 21(2), 2021, p.1. Online only
- Publisher:
- International Foundation for Integrated Care
Introduction: Japan’s health policies to address the most advanced-aged society have been the target of focus in Asia, but no studies have investigated this issue using tools for cross-country comparisons. Theory and methods: A cross-country study design was used to compare healthcare reform policies with a framework in Japan, Korea, Thailand, China, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Data were collected via document reviews and key informant interviews. Results: Three distinctions were identified. First, all countries except for the Philippines have policy decisions regarding reforms for the existing service delivery systems for healthcare, long-term care and welfare. Second, the most extensive service delivery reform is currently being implemented in Japan, whose system is shifting to primary health care. Third, the direction of the transformation of service delivery system is different between Thailand and China despite a similar level of ageing society. China has made progress on facility-based care integration between health and social care, whereas Thailand is focusing on home-based care. Conclusions and discussion: Doctor and hospital-based healthcare delivery system requires more drastic reform for an aged society. This fact implies that strengthening primary health care is not only useful for current health issues but also an investment for the aged society near future in low- and middle-income countries. (Edited publisher abstract)
Comparison of life quality in older adults living in traditional family versus nursing home: a systematic review and meta-analysis
- Authors:
- CHEN Yajing, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Psychology, Health and Medicine, early cite 14 December 2020,
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis Group
- Place of publication:
- United Kingdom
To assess and compare the QoL of the older people dwelling in traditional family versus nursing home/institution. A comprehensive literature search was performed on 10 January 2018 to identify studies that investigated the QoL of older adults dwelling in family versus nursing home settings. Analyses were run using random-effects meta-analyses. A total of six cross-sectional studies with 1623 people were included. The quality of included studies was moderate. Meta-analysis showed that compared with nursing home support, the family support could significantly improve the physical health (6 studies, SMD = 0.50, 95%CI: 0.32–0.68, p < 0.05), mental status (6 studies, SMD = 0.45, 95%CI: 0.26–0.65, p < 0.05), and social relationship (5 studies, SMD = 0.51, 95%CI: 0.19–0.83, p < 0.05). Traditional family support model demonstrated a significant improvement in the physical health, psychological status and social relationships among older adults. The conclusions were driven by cross-sectional studies, Larger, adequately powered RCTs are required to confirm our finding. (Edited publisher abstract)
Creating solace and hope during COVID-19: an innovative Internet-based social work intervention
- Authors:
- WANG Yixuan, et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Social Work, 64(2), 2021, pp.251-254.
- Publisher:
- Sage
During megacity lockdown, a team of social work practitioners and researchers in Beijing developed a rapid, innovative, Internet-based intervention that provided social-emotional support for participating families through indoor micro-gardening. As COVID-19 continues to restrict in-person interactions and traditional social activities, this type of online social-emotional support and community building should become a major social work method for crisis intervention and service provision. (Edited publisher abstract)
A Structured Cognitive Intervention Pathway as a decision-support tool for non-pharmacological interventions within a dementia care service (innovative practice)
- Authors:
- CARTER Mark, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Dementia: the International Journal of Social Research and Practice, 20(1), 2021, pp.398-409.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Individual cognitive interventions for Alzheimer’s disease have been shown to be beneficial and cost effective when evaluated as sole interventions. However, there is a need for a systematic, person-centric, structured approach to guide non-pharmacological intervention selection based on disease stage, symptoms, outcome assessment, and individual requirements. Our Structured Cognitive Intervention Pathway aims to facilitate the selection of first-line, or subsequent, non-pharmacological management for people with Alzheimer’s disease living at home and in elderly care facilities. We discuss the Pathway’s conceptual basis and evaluation of implementation as a decision-support tool within a dementia care service in China. (Edited publisher abstract)
Social work involvement in the COVID-19 response in China: interdisciplinary remote networking
- Authors:
- YU Zhinuan, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work, 21(2), 2021, pp.246-256.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Summary: Social workers in China have been involved significantly in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This article introduces the innovative interdisciplinary remote networking framework which both provides a guide for medical and community social workers’ involvement during the COVID-19 outbreaks, and also to support interdisciplinary collaboration with the aim of helping individuals and families in need during the pandemic. Findings: The implementation of interdisciplinary remote networking, developed by Chinese social workers, has effectively addressed the different domains of need experienced by the affected population and has established a new approach for social work in the field of health. The framework also provides an effective model for setting up a targeted and sustained service system that links social workers with psychological and medical resources, which capitalize on social resources to buffer the negative impacts of the disease. Social workers play an essential role during such a public health emergency, providing critical services for patients and families, medical workers, self-quarantined residents, and the general population. Applications: The service mode of interdisciplinary remote networking, based on the frontline experiences of social work interventions in China, may serve as a framework for combating COVID-19 in other countries. The framework is among the initiatives that provide transferrable skills to social work practitioners working in network-based social work services during public health emergencies. Thus, the framework presents implications for future practice development in both disaster social work and also public health social work. (Edited publisher abstract)
Integrated healthcare systems response strategies based on the Luohu Model during the COVID-19 epidemic in Shenzhen, China
- Authors:
- GONG Fangfang, et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Integrated Care, 21(1), 2021, Online only
- Publisher:
- International Foundation for Integrated Care
COVID-19 has affected primary health-care delivery in metropolitan areas. An integrated health-care system offers advantages in response to the community outbreak and transmission of highly infectious diseases. On the basis of practitioner experience with a pioneering integrated health-care system in Shenzhen, China, this article presents the following effective strategies in response to the epidemic: (1) enhance the public workforce in primary health care; (2) integrate resources to allow regional sharing and efficient use; (3) employ teams centered on general practitioners for community containment; and (4) adopt e-health and telemedicine for healthcare delivery. An integrated health-care system is usually very specific to a particular regional context; however, the core strategies and mechanisms based on the Luohu model can contribute to improving the public health capacity in emergency responses; they can transform health-care delivery in the COVID-19 epidemic. The experience in Shenzhen may help other cities in enhancing and coordinating the preparedness of their health-care systems in dealing with future public health emergencies. (Edited publisher abstract)