Submit a summary of six of your articles on the discussion board. Discuss one strength and one weakness to each of these six articles on why the article may or may not provide sufficient evidence for your practice change
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Article Summary
Article one: Booth, V., Logan, P., Harwood, R., & Hood, V. (2015). Falls prevention interventions in older adults with cognitive impairment: a systematic review of reviews. International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, 22(6), 289-296. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/ijtr.2015.22.6.289
Summary: “This critical review explores the review material on falls prevention interventions in older adults with a cognitive impairment such as dementia (Booth et al., 2015).”
Strength: Credible and reliable databases were used to identify articles to be used as sample populations of the study.
Weakness: The article did not highlight the actual number of articles included.
Article two: Dykeman, C. S., Markle-Reid, M. F., Boratto, L. J., Bowes, C., Gagné, H., McGugan, J. L., & Orr-Shaw, S. (2018). Community service provider perceptions of implementing older adult fall prevention in Ontario, Canada: a qualitative study. BMC geriatrics, 18(1), 34. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12877-018-0725-3
Summary: “This study aimed to describe the perceived barriers to and effective strategies for the implementation of evidence-based fall prevention practices within and across diverse community organizations.”
Strength: The article used interview instruments, a method that allowed the scholars to effectively collect data.
Weakness: The response rate of the participants was fairly low.
Article three: Elliott, S., & Leland, N. E. (2018). Occupational therapy fall prevention interventions for community-dwelling older adults: A systematic review. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 72,7204190040. https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.2018.030494
Summary: The article aimed to investigate fall prevention strategies among older people in a community setup.
Strength: The article employed proper inclusion and exclusion criteria, a practice that allowed the scholars to access vital sources.
Weakness: The originality of the articles used is questioning.
Article four: Peach, T., Pollock, K., van der Wardt, V., das Nair, R., Logan, P., & Harwood, R. H. (2017). Attitudes of older people with mild dementia and mild cognitive impairment and their relatives about falls risk and prevention: A qualitative study. PLoS One, 12(5). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5438143/
Summary: The article investigates patients’ views about falls.
Strength: The article has used the best methods for data collection, analysis, and sampling. Thematic analysis was used to conduct the study.
Weakness: The study recorded self-reported bias and this affected the credibility of its findings a some point.
Article five: Womack, J. A., Novick, G., & Fried, T. (2018). The beginning of the end: A qualitative study of falls among HIV+ individuals. PLoS one, 13(11). Retrieved from https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?type=printable&id=10.1371/journal.pone.0207006
Summary: “The purpose of this study was to understand perceptions of HIV+ individuals who had fallen regarding what caused their falls, prevention strategies that they used, and the impact of falls on their lives.”
Strength: The response rate of the study was high. More than 95% of the participants responded .
Weakness: However, the sample population used cannot be generalized to a larger group.
Article six: Howland J, Hackman H, Taylor A, O’Hara K, Liu J, Brusch J (2018) Older adult fall prevention practices among primary care providers at accountable care organizations: A pilot study. PLoS ONE 13(10): e0205279. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0205279
Summary: The article investigated the best practices that can be applied by primary care providers at accountable care organizations to reduce the incidences of falls among adult populations.
Strength: The article realized a high response rate. The authors note that 73% of the participants responded to the questionnaires distributed.
Weakness: The authors did not analyze the sample population quite well.
References
Booth, V., Logan, P., Harwood, R., & Hood, V. (2015). Falls prevention interventions in older adults with cognitive impairment: a systematic review of reviews. International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, 22(6), 289-296. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/ijtr.2015.22.6.289
Dykeman, C. S., Markle-Reid, M. F., Boratto, L. J., Bowes, C., Gagné, H., McGugan, J. L., & Orr-Shaw, S. (2018). Community service provider perceptions of implementing older adult fall prevention in Ontario, Canada: a qualitative study. BMC geriatrics, 18(1), 34. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12877-018-0725-3
Elliott, S., & Leland, N. E. (2018). Occupational therapy fall prevention interventions for community-dwelling older adults: A systematic review. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 72,7204190040. https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.2018.030494Peach, T., Pollock, K., van der Wardt, V., das Nair, R., Logan, P., & Harwood, R. H. (2017). Attitudes of older people with mild dementia and mild cognitive impairment and their relatives about falls risk and prevention: A qualitative study. PLoS One, 12(5). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5438143/
Howland J, Hackman H, Taylor A, O’Hara K, Liu J, Brusch J (2018) Older adult fall prevention practices among primary care providers at accountable care organizations: A pilot study. PLoS ONE 13(10): e0205279. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0205279
Peach, T., Pollock, K., van der Wardt, V., das Nair, R., Logan, P., & Harwood, R. H. (2017). Attitudes of older people with mild dementia and mild cognitive impairment and their relatives about falls risk and prevention: A qualitative study. PLoS One, 12(5). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5438143/
Womack, J. A., Novick, G., & Fried, T. (2018). The beginning of the end: A qualitative study of falls among HIV+ individuals. PLoS one, 13(11). Retrieved from https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?type=printable&id=10.1371/journal.pone.0207006
