From Diagnosis to Social Support: How Laboratory Findings Guide Nursing and Social Specialist Interventions

Abstract

Nurse researchers have provided conceptual clarity, assessment tools, and empirical investigations about support resources and target populations within the social support literature. A notable deficiency, particularly surprising given nursing's practice-oriented nature, is the conspicuous lack of empirical intervention research. This document proposes prospective areas for nursing research across five tiers of social-support interventions: individual, dyadic, group, social system, and community levels. Nurses can both suggest and validate principles of social support in practical scenarios involving actual populations. They possess the qualifications to offer a distinctive viewpoint on the examination of social support.