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Table 8 Allocation of identified facilitators and barriers to the context factors (individual/social/organizational/system) and suggestions for implementation strategies

From: Experiences of general practitioners, home care nurses, physiotherapists and seniors involved in a multidisciplinary home-based fall prevention programme: a mixed method study

Context/Point of interest

Individual

Social

Organizational

System

Satisfaction with organization and processes of the FFP

F: Satisfaction of HCNs and seniors with information and organization

F: Satisfaction of GP with expenditure of time for project participation

F: High satisfaction of physiotherapists with time allocated for the home visit

→ Highlight satisfaction of physiotherapists, HCNs and seniors

 

B: Seniors and GPs not sufficiently informed

→ Information strategy tailored to target group

F: FFP is funded

B: Concerns for the future

→ Programme funding has to be granted for the future

Strength and benefits of the FFP

F: Majority of seniors perceives general and specific benefits (such as insight into risk of falling); a concise majority executes instructed exercise and changes in their homes

→ Strengthen motivation and self-efficacy in seniors

F: Potential of the FPP to prevent falls and draw attention to the risk of falling accepted by GP and HCNs

→ Highlight confidence of GPs and HCNs in potential effectiveness of the FFP

  

Barriers to the inclusion of seniors

B: Seniors don’t need or/and refuse participation

→ Highlight the importance that GP and HCNs invest efforts at convincibility, as they exert a great influence in their patients/clients.

→ Invest in information, awareness rising; self-efficacy, empowerment of seniors

 

B: Lack of clarity regarding the aim and target group of the project; B: no systematic recruitment procedure

→ Invest in clear messages about the aim of the project and in clear recruitment instructions

 

Barriers to participation

  

B: Recruited seniors are not capable to do exercise or their home has already been checked for extrinsic risk factors

→ Invest in clear messages about the aim of the project and in clear recruitment instructions

B: Taboo character

B: Costs: Participation not for free

→ Programme funding has to be granted for the future

Barriers in interdisciplinary cooperation

 

B: Unsatisfactory information-flow

→ Invest in clear information, who should be informed when and how about the project

B: Procedure reports

→ Invest in clear instructions how to proceed with reports

 
  1. F facilitator, B barrier