title: Resilience as a concept for understanding family caregiving of adults with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): an integrative review.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This paper was a report of the synthesis of evidence on examining the origins and definitions of the concept of resilience, investigating its application in chronic illness management and exploring its utility as a means of understanding family caregiving of adults with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Resilience is a concept that is becoming relevant to understanding how individuals and families live with illness, especially long-term conditions. Caregivers of adults with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease must be able to respond to exacerbations of the condition and may themselves experience cognitive imbalances. Yet, resilience as a way of understanding family caregiving of adults with COPD is little explored.
  
  
  METHODS
  Literature review - integrative review.
  
  
  METHODS
  CINAHL, PubMed, Google Scholar and EBSCO were searched between 1989-2015.
  
  
  METHODS
  The principles of rapid evidence assessment were followed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We identified 376 relevant papers: 20 papers reported the presence of the concept of resilience in family caregivers of chronic diseases patients but only 12 papers reported the presence of the concept of resilience in caregivers of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease patients and have been included in the synthesis. The term resilience in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease caregiving is most often understood using a deficit model of health.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Sciences University of Genoa Genoa Italy.
authors.forename: Francesca
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Rosa
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Sciences University of Genoa Genoa Italy.
authors.forename: Annamaria
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bagnasco
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Sciences University of Genoa Genoa Italy.
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Aleo
authors.affiliation: Centre for Research in Primary and Community Care (CRIPACC) University of Hertfordshire Hatfield UK.
authors.forename: Sally
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kendall
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Sciences University of Genoa Genoa Italy.
authors.forename: Loredana
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sasso
keywords: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; Health Assets; caregiver (or family caregiver); chronic disease; coping; integrative review; literature review; quality of life; resilience