BACKGROUND Fear of falling and associated avoidance of activity are common among older people and may have negative consequences in terms of functional decline, quality of life and institutionalisation. We evaluated the effects of a cognitive behavioural group intervention to reduce fear of falling and associated avoidance of activity among older persons. This intervention showed favourable eff...

OBJECTIVE Peer facilitators play an important role in determining the success of many support groups for patients with medical illnesses. However, many facilitators do not receive training for their role and report a number of challenges in fulfilling their responsibilities. The objective of this systematic review was to evaluate the effects of training and support programmes for peer facilitat...

The purpose of this study was to gain insight in barriers and facilitators of sports in paralympic athletes. An online questionnaire was distributed through the Netherlands Olympic Committee and National Sports Confederation to determine personal and environmental barriers and facilitators of sports participation. The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health model and ...

Purpose The aim of this paper is to analyse the nature facilitators continuous improvement (CI), proposing a classification them and identifying different profiles companies based on them. Design/methodology/approach To achieve objective, first, literature review was done in order identify main facilitators; second, some were included survey experts' opinions; third, conducted amongst people re...

conclusions regarding the results, it could be suggested that the reason for not being able to control diabetes was the existence of differences among viewpoints while by getting to know the obstacles for controlling diabetes from the viewpoints of the three studied groups, more effective planning for controlling diabetes could be possible. results the results of this research showed that there...

the problem of navigation among movable obstacles (namo) is to find a collision free path for a robot while the robot is able to manipulate and transfer some objects (if possible or needed) to clear its path toward the goal. namo is a np-complete problem and is in a class of motion planning problems that have dynamic environments. in this domain, an optimal plan for the robot can be defined wit...

This qualitative study explored general practitioner's and practice nurse's perceptions of barriers and facilitators to the proposed transfer of diabetes care to general practice. Qualitative data were collected through five focus groups. Participants included GPs (n = 55) and practice nurses (n = 11) representing urban (44%), rural (29%) and mixed (27%) practices, in the Irish Mid-West region....

BACKGROUND While the public health benefits of new HCV treatments depend on treatment adherence, particularly among people who inject drugs (PWID), several social and medical factors can jeopardize treatment adherence. The aim of this study is to examine the qualitative literature on facilitators to HCV treatment adherence among PWID. METHODS We searched six databases to identify qualitative ...