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Perspectives of Frailty and Frailty Screening: Protocol for a Collaborative Knowledge Translation Approach and Qualitative Study of Stakeholder Understandings and Experiences

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Geriatrics, April 2017
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Title
Perspectives of Frailty and Frailty Screening: Protocol for a Collaborative Knowledge Translation Approach and Qualitative Study of Stakeholder Understandings and Experiences
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BMC Geriatrics, April 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12877-017-0483-7
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Mandy M. Archibald, Rachel Ambagtsheer, Justin Beilby, Mellick J. Chehade, Tiffany K. Gill, Renuka Visvanathan, Alison L. Kitson

Abstract

Accompanying the unprecedented growth in the older adult population worldwide is an increase in the prevalence of frailty, an age-related clinical state of increased vulnerability to stressor events. This increased vulnerability results in lower social engagement and quality of life, increased dependency, and higher rates of morbidity, health service utilization and mortality. Early identification of frailty is necessary to guide implementation of interventions to prevent associated functional decline. Consensus is lacking on how to clinically recognize and manage frailty. It is unknown how healthcare providers and healthcare consumers understand and perceive frailty, whether or not they regard frailty as a public health concern; and information on the indirect and direct experiences of consumer and healthcare provider groups towards frailty are markedly limited. We will conduct a qualitative study of consumer, practice nurse, general practitioner, emergency department physician, and orthopedic surgeons' perspectives of frailty and frailty screening in metropolitan and non-metropolitan South Australia. We will use tailored combinations of semi-structured interviews and arts-based data collection methods depending on each stakeholder group, followed by inductive and iterative analysis of data using qualitative description. Using stakeholder driven approaches to understanding and addressing frailty and frailty screening in context is critical as the prevalence and burden of frailty is likely to increase worldwide. We will use the findings from the Perceptions of Frailty and Frailty Screening study to inform a context-driven identification, implementation and evaluation of a frailty-screening tool; drive awareness, knowledge, and skills development strategies across stakeholder groups; and guide future efforts to embed emerging knowledge about frailty and its management across diverse South Australian contexts using a collaborative knowledge translation approach. Study findings will help achieve a coordinated frailty and healthy ageing strategy with relevance to other jurisdictions in Australia and abroad, and application of the stakeholder driven approach will help illuminate how its applicability to other jurisdictions.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 142 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 22 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 20 14%
Student > Master 18 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 13 9%
Student > Bachelor 12 8%
Other 26 18%
Unknown 32 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 33 23%
Medicine and Dentistry 24 17%
Social Sciences 13 9%
Psychology 6 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 3%
Other 16 11%
Unknown 47 33%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 September 2019.
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#6,490,252
of 25,402,889 outputs
Outputs from BMC Geriatrics
#1,559
of 3,649 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#95,464
of 324,014 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Geriatrics
#16
of 38 outputs
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