The actuality of resilience, social support and quality of life among patients with inflammatory bowel disease in China.
Weiwei Dai, Yufeng Zeng, E Liang and 3 others
PMID 34037332WHAT IT FOUND
Chinese patients with inflammatory bowel disease reported resilience that was higher with more use of social support and lower in rural areas.
Nurses can ask about support use and rural residence.
Key findings
01Resilience scores averaged 67.39, and the family support dimension was highest while active response to difficulty was lowest.
02Total social support averaged 37.52, and resilience was positively correlated with utilization of social support (r = .224, p < .01) and negatively correlated with Short Health Scale scores (r = -.302, p < .01).
03Living in the countryside was linked to lower resilience, while greater use of social support was linked to higher resilience; the model explained 7.7% of resilience variance.
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What it does not show
Participants were recruited from one hospital department, not randomly selected, so they may not represent inflammatory bowel disease patients elsewhere. The study measured patients at one time, so it cannot show that social support or rural residence cause changes in resilience. Most participants had Crohn's disease (215 of 249), so findings may not apply to ulcerative colitis. The reported age range included 14-year-olds even though the inclusion criterion said 18 or older. Resilience, social support, and quality of life were measured by self-report questionnaires.
Declared interests
No conflicts of interest were declared. The article is tagged as supported by non-U.S. government research funding, but no funder is named in the supplied text.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the correlations as proof that increasing social support will raise resilience. The study measured patients at one time and did not test an intervention.