Abstract

Objective

Forming and maintaining romantic relationships is an important developmental task in adolescence and young adulthood. This scoping review seeks to explore how young people with long-term physical health conditions understand and experience romantic relationships.

Methods

Using Arksey and O’Malley’s scoping review framework, a systematic search of five databases was conducted (PsychINFO, Cinahl, MEDLINE, Embase, and Web of Science). Studies were eligible for inclusion in the review if they were published in peer-reviewed journals, used primary data collection methods, and adopted quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-methods approaches to study romantic relationships in 11–25 year olds with long-term physical health conditions. Using a data extraction form, data pertaining to demographic characteristics of young people with long-term physical health conditions and relationship engagement were extracted from eligible papers.

Results

Searches returned 4645 papers after duplicate removal, with a two-stage screening process resulting in 111 full-text papers being reviewed. Thirty-three eligible papers were included across a range of long-term physical health conditions. Findings identified that living with a long-term physical health condition impacted young people’s perceptions and experiences of romantic relationships across the relationship lifespan, from envisaging future relationships, to forming relationships, and sustaining relationships. Issues around body confidence and self-esteem were identified as challenging in terms of perceptions and experiences of romantic relationships.

Conclusions

Findings demonstrate that young people wish to engage with romantic relationships, yet many report particular challenges associated with forming and sustaining relationships due to the constraints of their condition and treatment. Future research should consider nonheterosexual relationships.

中文翻译：

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长期健康状况年轻人的恋爱关系：范围界定

摘要

客观的

建立和维持浪漫关系是青春期和成年期的重要发展任务。这份范围回顾旨在探索具有长期身体健康状况的年轻人如何理解和体验恋爱关系。

方法

使用Arksey和O'Malley的范围界定审查框架，对五个数据库（PsychINFO，Cinahl，MEDLINE，Embase和Web of Science）进行了系统搜索。如果研究在同行评审的期刊上发表，使用原始数据收集方法并采用定量，定性或混合方法的方法进行研究，则可以将这些研究纳入本评论，这些研究是针对11至25岁的长期恋爱关系中的恋爱关系进行的健康状况。使用数据提取表，从符合条件的论文中提取与具有长期身体健康状况和人际关系的年轻人的人口统计学特征有关的数据。

结果

重复删除后，搜索返回了4645篇论文，经过两阶段的筛选过程，共审查了111篇全文论文。包含33篇符合条件的论文，涉及范围广泛的长期身体健康状况。研究结果表明，长期的身体健康状况会影响年轻人在整个人际关系寿命中的感情和经历，从设想未来的关系到建立关系和维持关系。就浪漫关系的感知和经历而言，围绕身体自信和自尊的问题被认为具有挑战性。

结论

研究结果表明，年轻人希望与恋爱关系交往，但由于其状况和治疗的限制，许多人报告与建立和维持人际关系相关的特殊挑战。未来的研究应考虑非异性恋关系。