Qualitative Comparative Analysis of exercise interventions for fall prevention in residential aged care facilities.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Exercise interventions are highly effective at preventing falls in older people living in the community. In residential aged care facilities (RACFs), however, the evidence for effectiveness is highly variable, warranting exploration of drivers of successful trials. This study aims to identify the conditions of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) that are associated with reducing falls in RACFs and test whether it can explain the variability.

Methods

RCTs testing exercise interventions in RACFs compared to usual care, reporting rate or risk of falls from the 2018 Cochrane Collaboration review and a search update to December 2022 were included. Two authors independently extracted and coded trial conditions and outcomes according to a theory developed from prior Inte

SUBMITTER: Suen J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11370059 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature