Nordström M, Carlsson P, Ericson D, Hedenbjörk-Lager A, Hänsel Petersson G. Common resilience factors among healthy individuals exposed to chronic adversity: a systematic review.
Acta Odontol Scand 2023;
81:176-185. [PMID:
35811490 DOI:
10.1080/00016357.2022.2095021]
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Abstract
OBJECTIVE
To identify common resilience factors against non-communicable diseases (dental caries, diabetes type II, obesity and cardiovascular disease) among healthy individuals exposed to chronic adversity.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
The databases MEDLINE (via PubMed), Scopus and CINAHL were searched. Observational studies in English assessing resilience factors among populations living in chronic adversity were included. Intervention studies, systematic reviews, non-original articles and qualitative studies were excluded. There were no restrictions regarding publication year or age. No meta-analysis could be done. Quality assessments were made with the Newcastle-Ottawa scale (NOS).
RESULTS
A final total of 41 studies were included in this systematic review. The investigated health resilience factors were divided into the following domains: environmental (community and family) and individual (behavioural and psychosocial). A narrative synthesis of the results was made according to the domains.
CONCLUSIONS
Individual psychosocial, family and environmental factors play a role as health resilience factors in populations living in chronic adversity. However, the inconclusive results suggest that these factors do not act in isolation but interplay in a complex manner and that their interaction may vary during the life course, in different contexts, and over time.
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