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Specifying the content of home-based health behaviour change interventions for older people with frailty or at risk of frailty: An exploratory systematic review

Findings
  • Supporting technical documents that are health systems-relevant
    Not usually available for this document type
  • Full-text report
    Full-text report
  • Scientific Abstract
    PubMed
  • Scientific Abstract
    Publisher
Recency, quality and context of the findings
  • Last year literature searched
    Not applicable
  • Year Published
    2017
  • Quality Rating
    6/9 (AMSTAR rating from McMaster Health Forum)
  • Countries in which studies (included in the synthesis) were conducted
    Canada (4); Netherlands (4); United States (4); Denmark (1); Ghana (1); Japan (1); Mexico (1); Switzerland (1); Sweden (1); United Kingdom (1)
  • Global/regional focus
    Not yet available
  • Country focus
  • Low - and middle-income country (LMIC) focus
    At least one LMIC/Global South study included
Additional details about the research
  • Type of document
    Evidence syntheses of effects
  • Type of question
    Effectiveness
  • Focus
    Specific
  • Priority Area
    Not applicable
  • Health system topic(s)
    Implementation strategies
    Consumer-targeted strategy
    Information or education provision
    Behaviour change support
    Skills and competencies development
  • Theme
    Optimal aging
    Health promotion/primary prevention
  • Domain
    Sectors
    Home and community care
    Public health
    Providers
    Physicians
    Generalists
    Specialists
    Physicians
    Generalists
    Specialists
    Nurses
    Allied health professionals
    Lay/community health workers
Publication details
  • Citation
    Gardner B, Jovicic A, Belk C, Kharicha K, Iliffe S, Manthorpe J, et al. Specifying the content of home-based health behaviour change interventions for older people with frailty or at risk of frailty: An exploratory systematic review. BMJ Open. 2017;7(2):e014127.
  • DOI
    10.1136/bmjopen-2016-014127

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