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| Barriers and facilitators to senior centers participating in translational research | | Author(s) | Holly C Felix, Becky Adams, Carol E Cornell |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 36, no 1, January 2014 |
| Publisher | Sage, January 2014 |
| Pages | pp 22-39 |
| Source | roa.sagepub.com |
| Keywords | Day centres ; Participation ; Research ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Senior centres are ideal locations to deliver evidence-based health promotion programs to the rapidly growing population of older Americans to help them remain healthy and independent in the community. However, not much is known about barriers and facilitators for senior centres serving as research sites. To fill this gap and potentially accelerate research within senior centres to enhance translation of evidence-based interventions into practice, the authors invited senior centres to participate in a cluster randomised controlled trial (RCT). Primary barriers to participation related to staffing and perceived inability to recruit older adult participants meeting research criteria. The primary facilitator was a desire to offer programmes that were of interest and beneficial to seniors. Senior centres are interested in participating in research that provides benefit to older adults, but may need assistance from researchers to overcome participation barriers. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150626276 A |
| Classmark | NMC: TMB: 3A: 4C: 7T |
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