Situating Preventive Action in a Moral and Clinical Context: A Qualitative Synthesis on Fall Prevention
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Title: | Situating Preventive Action in a Moral and Clinical Context: A Qualitative Synthesis on Fall Prevention |
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Authors: | Cuesta-Benjumea, Carmen de la | Abad Corpa, Eva | Lidón-Cerezuela, Beatriz | Orts-Cortés, María Isabel | Meseguer Liza, Cristóbal | Arredondo-González, Claudia Patricia |
Research Group/s: | Calidad de Vida, Bienestar Psicológico y Salud | Grupo Balmis de Investigación en Salud Comunitaria e Historia de la Ciencia |
Center, Department or Service: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Psicología de la Salud | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Enfermería |
Keywords: | Caregivers | Falls | Falling | Nursing | Older people | Qualitative | Synthesis | Asia | Australia | Europe | North America |
Knowledge Area: | Enfermería |
Issue Date: | 1-Oct-2020 |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Citation: | Qualitative Health Research. 2020, 30(12): 1913-1923. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732320921144 |
Abstract: | The prevention of falls is an integral part of the safety culture of health institutions with mandatory fall prevention programs set within health care facilities. Care providers are key in identifying the risks of falls and in implementing strategic actions to prevent them. With the aim to better understand practices of fall prevention, we conducted a synthesis of qualitative evidence on care providers’ practices to prevent older people from falling in health care facilities. This synthesis is part of an integrative review of the role of care providers in fall prevention of adults aged 65 years and above. Primary studies were synthesized with the emerging core category of “a complex decision” and described by four emerging conditions that make that decision complex: (a) permanent threat of a fall, (b) continuous flow of information, (c) lack of control, and (d) ethical dilemmas and moral issues over the course of action. The present synthesis shows that before implementing preventive actions, care providers consider the conditions in which they are immersed, in this way situating their preventive actions in a clinical and a moral context. |
Sponsor: | Authors receive funds to conduct this review from the National Institute of Health Carlos III-Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad. Madrid, Spain and the European fund for Regional Development-Grant PI 15/01351. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/109384 |
ISSN: | 1049-7323 (Print) | 1552-7557 (Online) |
DOI: | 10.1177/1049732320921144 |
Language: | eng |
Type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Rights: | © The Author(s) 2020 |
Peer Review: | si |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732320921144 |
Appears in Collections: | INV - BALMIS - Artículos de Revistas INV - SALUD - Artículos de Revistas INV - CV, BP Y S - Artículos de Revistas |
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