TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Design an educational intervention to prevent falls of older people in social housing: description of a research method
JO  - Sante Publique
A1  - Trevidy, Frédérique
A1  - Wolfrom, Jacques
A1  - Sebbane, Georges
A1  - Brugidou, Guillaume
A1  - Bonnetin, Denis
A1  - Gagnayre, Rémi
SP  - 623
EP  - 634
VL  - 29
IS  - 5
N2  - INTRODUCTION: In a social environment in which prevention of falls in older people has become a public health issue, adaptation of housing for older people is particularly important. Based on the home-identity concept, the objective of this research was to design an educational model specifically adapted to the context of a Social Housing Company (SHC), focussing on elderly tenants who have experienced a fall in order to allow them to adapt their lodgings and avoid subsequent falls. <br><br>METHOD: This article describes design-based research (DBR), which enabled the research committee (composed of professionals, tenants, and researchers) to construct the educational intervention based on analysis of the SHC context. <br><br>RESULTS: The creation of a common approach within the research committee and the production of design-linked intentions enabled the creation of a formal intervention composed of four educational sessions, involving a private occupational therapist, an SHC social worker and a caretaker. <br><br>DISCUSSION: The use of DBR can be justified by the research goal, i.e. validation of an educational model (based on the theoretical home-identity model) that can be transposed to a SHC. As this research is still underway, its quality criteria will only be partially described and will be completed by field experimentation. <br><br>CONCLUSION: This exploratory study could eventually result in interventional research designed to assess this model in a multifactorial therapeutic patient education programme for older people at high risk of falls (e.g.: Personnes Âgées En Risque de Perte d'Autonomie device).<p />  <p>Language: fr</p>
LA  - fr
SN  - 0995-3914
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/spub.175.0623
ID  - ref1
ER  -