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Development of the Home Fall Hazard Checklist
OBJECTIVE: Home hazard assessment is particularly important following a fracture as a means of preventing subsequent fractures. The purpose of this study was to evaluate current checklists and evidence on home hazard to develop a usable self-administered checklist that could be used by adults to ass...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8187056/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34158978 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5362197 |
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author | Ziebart, Christina Dewan, Neha Tuazon, Joshua MacDermid, Joy |
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description | OBJECTIVE: Home hazard assessment is particularly important following a fracture as a means of preventing subsequent fractures. The purpose of this study was to evaluate current checklists and evidence on home hazard to develop a usable self-administered checklist that could be used by adults to assess home hazards. DESIGN: Review and observational, prospective study. Setting. Community dwelling. Participants. Nine adults (4 men, 5 women) were asked to review the checklist and provide feedback on whether items were relevant, comprehensive, and easy to understand. Intervention. A search for literature examining the causes of falls that focused on home hazards or behaviours was conducted, and causes were extracted. Using the combined list of home hazards, a draft checklist was created. The participants were asked to pilot the checklist through their home. Primary and Secondary Outcome. An initial iteration of the checklist was modified to reduce redundancy (by grouping certain items together), improve usability (by adding a “not applicable category”), and improve readability (by removing double-barrelled questions or rewriting certain items). RESULTS: This process resulted in 74 items in 10 areas. On average, it took 10 minutes for the participants to complete the home walk-through while filling out the checklist. CONCLUSION: The fall hazard-home checklist is a new checklist designed to identify home fall hazards with the intended use of being either administered by self-report through memory or supported by a walk-about, and that could potentially be completed by a patient who has incurred a fall, fracture, a family member, or caregiver. Given the expense of home hazard assessments that involve a home visit, the validity of this method of detection warrants further investigation. |
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spelling | pubmed-81870562021-06-21 Development of the Home Fall Hazard Checklist Ziebart, Christina Dewan, Neha Tuazon, Joshua MacDermid, Joy Rehabil Res Pract Research Article OBJECTIVE: Home hazard assessment is particularly important following a fracture as a means of preventing subsequent fractures. The purpose of this study was to evaluate current checklists and evidence on home hazard to develop a usable self-administered checklist that could be used by adults to assess home hazards. DESIGN: Review and observational, prospective study. Setting. Community dwelling. Participants. Nine adults (4 men, 5 women) were asked to review the checklist and provide feedback on whether items were relevant, comprehensive, and easy to understand. Intervention. A search for literature examining the causes of falls that focused on home hazards or behaviours was conducted, and causes were extracted. Using the combined list of home hazards, a draft checklist was created. The participants were asked to pilot the checklist through their home. Primary and Secondary Outcome. An initial iteration of the checklist was modified to reduce redundancy (by grouping certain items together), improve usability (by adding a “not applicable category”), and improve readability (by removing double-barrelled questions or rewriting certain items). RESULTS: This process resulted in 74 items in 10 areas. On average, it took 10 minutes for the participants to complete the home walk-through while filling out the checklist. CONCLUSION: The fall hazard-home checklist is a new checklist designed to identify home fall hazards with the intended use of being either administered by self-report through memory or supported by a walk-about, and that could potentially be completed by a patient who has incurred a fall, fracture, a family member, or caregiver. Given the expense of home hazard assessments that involve a home visit, the validity of this method of detection warrants further investigation. Hindawi 2021-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC8187056/ /pubmed/34158978 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5362197 Text en Copyright © 2021 Christina Ziebart et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Ziebart, Christina Dewan, Neha Tuazon, Joshua MacDermid, Joy Development of the Home Fall Hazard Checklist |
title | Development of the Home Fall Hazard Checklist |
title_full | Development of the Home Fall Hazard Checklist |
title_fullStr | Development of the Home Fall Hazard Checklist |
title_full_unstemmed | Development of the Home Fall Hazard Checklist |
title_short | Development of the Home Fall Hazard Checklist |
title_sort | development of the home fall hazard checklist |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8187056/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34158978 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5362197 |
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