Difficulties experienced in setting and achieving goals by participants of a falls prevention programme: a mixed-methods evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To evaluate the ability of participants of a falls prevention programme to set and achieve goals.

Methods

The study used a prospective longitudinal design and a mixed-methods approach to data collection. Study participants were (1) 220 older adults participating in a 15-week combined exercise and education falls prevention programme and (2) 9 practitioners (3 home-care nurses, 5 community workers, and an exercise physiologist) involved in delivering the programme. Data from goal-setting forms were analyzed, and descriptive statistics were used to determine the number of appropriate goals set and achieved. Data were analyzed according to programme setting (home- or group-based) and whether or not participants were classified as being from a Culturally and Linguistical

SUBMITTER: Haas R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4403365 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature