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Social Support — Meaning, Measurement, and Relevance to Community Health Nursing Practice
Author(s) -
Roberts Susan Jo
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
public health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.471
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1525-1446
pISSN - 0737-1209
DOI - 10.1111/j.1525-1446.1984.tb00445.x
Subject(s) - relevance (law) , meaning (existential) , variety (cybernetics) , community health , nursing , nursing practice , nursing research , public health nursing , psychology , public health , sociology , medicine , computer science , political science , psychotherapist , artificial intelligence , law
Social support is a popular concept in the 1980s. This paper reviews recent advances in the development and measurement of the concept; the research that relates support to a variety of health outcomes and behaviors; the relevance of the concept to the practice of community health nurses.