Evaluating audio-visual falls prevention messages with community-dwelling older people using a World Cafe forum approach.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Falls risk increases sharply with older age but many older people are unaware or underestimate their risk of falling. Increased population-based efforts to influence older people's falls prevention behavior are urgently needed. The aim of this study was to obtain a group of older people's collective perspectives on newly developed prototypes of audio-visual (AV) falls prevention messages, and evaluate changes in their falls prevention behaviour after watching and discussing these. METHODS:A mixed-method study using a community World Café forum approach. RESULTS:Although the forum participants (n = 38) mostly responded positively to the three AV messages and showed a significant increase in their falls prevention capability and motivation after the forum, the participants collect

SUBMITTER: de Jong LD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6902607 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature