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

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    Authors
    De Jong, Lex
    Francis-Coad, J.
    Wortham, C.
    Haines, T.P.
    Skelton, D.A.
    Weselman, Tammy
    Hill, Anne-Marie
    Date
    2019
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    De Jong, L.D. and Francis-Coad, J. and Wortham, C. and Haines, T.P. and Skelton, D.A. and Weselman, T. and Hill, A.M. 2019. Evaluating audio-visual falls prevention messages with community-dwelling older people using a World Café forum approach. BMC Geriatrics. 19 (1): Article No. 345.
    Source Title
    BMC Geriatrics
    DOI
    10.1186/s12877-019-1344-3
    Additional URLs
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    ISSN
    1471-2318
    Faculty
    Faculty of Health Sciences
    School
    School of Physiotherapy and Exercise Science
    Remarks

    © The Author(s). 2019 Published in BMC Geriatrics.

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/79490
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    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 collectively felt the AV messages needed a more inspirational call to action. The forum suggested this could be achieved by means of targeting the message and increasing the personal connection. Participants further suggested several alternatives to online falls prevention information, such as printed information in places in the community, as a means to increase opportunity to seek out falls prevention information.

    Conclusions: Falls prevention promotion messages need to be carefully tailored if they are to be more motivating to older people to take action to do something about their falls risk. A wider variety of revised and tailored AV messages, as one component of a community-wide falls prevention campaign, could be considered in an effort to persuade older people to take decisive action to do something about their falls risk.

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