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Views, experiences and attitudes of community-living older people towards the FIT-at-Home fall prevention programme: A qualitative interview study / Sichtweisen, Erfahrungswerte und Einstellungen von sturzgefährdeten Menschen im höheren Lebensalter zum FIT-at-Home-Sturzpräventionsprogramm: Eine qualitative Interviewstudie Cover

Views, experiences and attitudes of community-living older people towards the FIT-at-Home fall prevention programme: A qualitative interview study / Sichtweisen, Erfahrungswerte und Einstellungen von sturzgefährdeten Menschen im höheren Lebensalter zum FIT-at-Home-Sturzpräventionsprogramm: Eine qualitative Interviewstudie

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|Jun 2021

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Table 1

List of topics covered in the interview guide.

Outline levelTopics and exemplary narrative questions
Block ATopic: Reasons for participation in the FIT-at-Home intervention
Can you please describe what motivated you to take part in the FIT-at-Home intervention at the beginning?
What were your expectations for this fall prevention programme?
Block BTopic: Practicability and acceptability of the home assessment and modification
Tell me which experiences you have had with the home safety assessment and modification!
Tell me what happened after the home assessment. Which issues did you discuss with your therapist afterwards?
Block CTopic: Practicability and acceptability of the physical exercise training
Can you describe your experiences with the muscle strength and balance training?
Can you describe how you felt about the level of difficulty of the exercises?
Block DTopic: Facilitators and barriers to the implementation of the FIT-at-Home intervention
Reflecting back on your experiences with the intervention, what were the beneficial factors that made it easier for you to implement the physical training and what were the obstacles?
Block ETopic: Benefits and expenses of the FIT-at-Home intervention
How do you rate the relation between effort and benefit of the FIT-at-Home intervention?
How do you rate the daily effort for physical training?
Block FTopic: Sustainability of the FIT-at-Home intervention
Which aspects are important to you so that you are ready to continue the physical training programme?
What motivates or hinders you from continuing the programme beyond the training period?
Block GTopic: Overall satisfaction with the FIT-at-Home intervention
How satisfied are you with the intervention overall?
In your opinion, which aspects of the intervention should be changed?

[i] Annotation: For more details on a particular matter, additional probing questions were used, for example: a) Tell me a little more about it! b) Can you describe that more detailed? c) Can you give us an example of this? d) And then how did it progress?

Language: English, German
Page range: 37 - 47
Submitted on: Feb 12, 2021
Accepted on: May 7, 2021
Published on: Jun 18, 2021
Published by: ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2021 Christian Müller, Sindy Lautenschläger, Christine Dörge, published by ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
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