94% of researchers rate our articles as excellent or good
Learn more about the work of our research integrity team to safeguard the quality of each article we publish.
Find out more
STUDY PROTOCOL article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Health Education and Promotion
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1473912
This article is part of the Research Topic The Role of Nursing in Public Health Promotion and Education View all 30 articles
Supervision Programs Implemented by Nurses to Caregivers in Community: A Scoping Review Protocol
Provisionally accepted- 1 Escola Superior de Enfermagem do Porto, Porto, Portugal
- 2 Local Health Unit of the Aveiro Region, Aveiro, Portugal, Aveiro, Portugal
- 3 CINTESIS@RISE (Center for Health Technology and Services Research), Porto, Portugal, Porto, Portugal
- 4 The Health Sciences Research Unit, Coimbra Nursing School, Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
- 5 Viseu Higher School of Health, Viseu, Portugal, Viseu, Portugal
- 6 Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar – University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, Porto, Portugal
Introduction: With the increase in the number of informal caregivers, their training becomes essential.The supervisory programs implemented by nurses play a leading role in caregiver training.Objective/s: To map the supervisory programs implemented by nurses to caregivers in the community.A scoping review will be developed according to the guidelines of the Joanna Briggs Institute. Studies published and unpublished in English, Portuguese or Spanish since 1993 will be considered. The results of the research, study selection and inclusion process will be presented in a PRISMA flowchart for scoping reviews.Results: Mapping the evidence will allow us to analyze the supervision programs implemented by nurses for caregivers in the community. The results will be presented through an extraction table according to the objectives.This review is expected to constitute a starting point for the critical analysis of studies relating to supervisory programs implemented by nurses for caregivers.
Keywords: caregiver, Supervisory Program, clinical supervision, Nurse, Community Caregiver, Community
Received: 31 Jul 2024; Accepted: 07 Mar 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Moreira, Coelho, Mota, Pires and Santos. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Inês Moreira, Escola Superior de Enfermagem do Porto, Porto, Portugal
Disclaimer: All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.