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72/100

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Clinical safety

Topic: Risk, prevention and care in population studies

Purpose of the study The purpose of this study was to test the impact of Function-Focused Care for the Cognitively Impaired Intervention on nursing home residents with dementia and the nursing assistants who care for them. Design and methods This was a cluster-randomized controlled trial using repeated measures. A total of 103 cognitively impaired residents and 77 nursing assistants were recruited from four nursing homes. For residents, outcome measures included function, physical activity (survey and actigraphy), mood, behavior, and adverse events (falls and hospitalization). Main outcome measures for nursing assistants included knowledge, beliefs, and performance of function focused care. Results There were significant improvements in the amount and intensity of physical activity (by survey and actigraphy) and physical function in the treatment group. In addition, there was a significant decrease in the number of residents who fell during the treatment period with those in the treatment sites having fewer falls (28% vs. 50% in the control group). Nursing assistants were also observed to be providing a greater percentage of function focused care during resident care interactions in the treatment group at 6 months following the completion of baseline measures. Implications This study provides some evidence that nursing home residents with severe cognitive impairment can safely and successfully be engaged in physical and functional activities.

Key findings

Results There were significant improvements in the amount and intensity of physical activity (by survey and actigraphy) and physical function in the treatment group.
In addition, there was a significant decrease in the number of residents who fell during the treatment period with those in the treatment sites having fewer falls (28% vs. 50% in the control group).

Study details

Study designrandomized controlled trial
Participants103
Evidence strengthHigh

How this study scored 72/100

Published in a peer-reviewed journal, and it is a randomised controlled trial. Scored zero for effect reported because the record does not state it. We have no data on journal's citation record, times cited, citations per year, impact for its field and year, cited by studies here, still being cited, senior author's track record, institution's track record and multi-centre collaboration, so those were left out: it earned 42 of the 58 points we could judge it on, which is 72 out of 100.

Component	Points	Why
Journal tier	7 / 10	Tier 3 — peer-reviewed journal (The Gerontologist)
Journal's citation record	— / 4	No journal record from OpenAlex — left out of this score
Study design	11 / 12	A randomised controlled trial
Strength of evidence	5 / 5	Rated “high” in our summary
Peer-review validation	10 / 10	Peer-reviewed. Published as an article in a named peer-reviewed journal.
How recent	1 / 5	2014 — within 20 year(s) of the newest study here
Sample size	2 / 4	103 participants
Effect reported	0 / 3	No effect size reported — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0)
Studied in people	3 / 3	Studied in people (participant count stated)
Randomised / blinded	1 / 2	Randomised (as stated in the record)
Times cited	— / 7	No citation count (not found in OpenAlex) — left out of this score
Citations per year	— / 5	No citation count or no year — left out of this score
Impact for its field and year	— / 6	No field-weighted citation impact (OpenAlex has none yet) — left out of this score
Cited by studies here	— / 6	Not yet checked against this library's citation graph — left out of this score
Still being cited	— / 4	No yearly citation counts — left out of this score
Senior author's track record	— / 4	Senior author's record not available — left out of this score
Institution's track record	— / 3	No institution listed in OpenAlex — left out of this score
Multi-centre collaboration	— / 3	Institutions not listed — left out of this score
Indexed in PubMed	2 / 2	Indexed in PubMed (PMID 24092822)
Free to read	0 / 2	Behind a paywall — scores zero
Points	42 / 58	Scored on 11 of 20 parts. We have no data for the rest, so they are left out: 42 of the 58 points we could judge it on is 72 out of 100.
Total	72 / 100	—

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APA 7th

Galik, E., Resnick, B., Hammersla, M., & Brightwater, J. (2014). Optimizing function and physical activity among nursing home residents with dementia: testing the impact of function-focused care. The Gerontologist. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnt108

Vancouver

Galik E, Resnick B, Hammersla M, Brightwater J. Optimizing function and physical activity among nursing home residents with dementia: testing the impact of function-focused care. The Gerontologist. 2014. doi:10.1093/geront/gnt108. PMID: 24092822.

BibTeX

@article{galik2014-24092822,
  author  = {Galik, E. and Resnick, B. and Hammersla, M. and Brightwater, J.},
  title   = {{Optimizing function and physical activity among nursing home residents with dementia: testing the impact of function-focused care}},
  journal = {The Gerontologist},
  year    = {2014},
  doi     = {10.1093/geront/gnt108},
  pmid    = {24092822},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnt108}
}

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