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Open Access 01-12-2021 | Dementia | Protocol

Effects of home visits on quality of life among older adults: a systematic review protocol

Authors: Yea Lu Tay, Nurul Salwana Abu Bakar, Ruzimah Tumiran, Noor Hasidah Ab Rahman, Noor Areefa Ameera Mohd Ma’amor, Weng Keong Yau, Zalilah Abdullah

Published in: Systematic Reviews | Issue 1/2021

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Abstract

Background

Home visiting services for older adults have been offered for decades to maintain and promote health and independent functioning, thus enhancing quality of life. Previous systematic reviews have provided a mixed picture of the benefits of home visiting programmes in older adults, primarily because of heterogeneity in study designs, targeted populations, and intervention strategies. These reviews may also become out of date; thus, an updated synthesis of relevant studies is warranted. Our objective is to perform a systematic review of recently published primary studies on the effectiveness of multi-professional home visits on quality of life among older adults.

Methods

We will perform a comprehensive search for studies investigating the effect of a multi-professional home visit approach on quality of life among older adults. We will conduct the literature search in selected electronic databases and relevant research websites from January 2010 onwards. We will include randomised controlled trials (RCTs), cluster randomised controlled trials (cluster RCTs), and observational studies that enrolled older adults without dementia over 60 years old, along with studies involving multi-professional preventive–promotive home visit approaches not related to recent hospital discharge. We will report our planned review following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. We will retrieve and record relevant data in a standardised data extraction form and evaluate the quality of the included articles using the Cochrane risk of bias tool and the quality assessment tool for studies with diverse designs (QATSDD). Where appropriate, outcomes will be pooled for meta-analysis using a random-effects model. The main outcomes include quality of life, incidence of falls, depression, dementia, and emergency department admissions.

Discussion

This review may provide evidence for the effectiveness of home visits in improving older adults’ quality of life. It will potentially benefit health care professionals, policymakers, and researchers by facilitating the design and delivery of interventions related to older generations and improve service delivery in future.

Systematic review registration

PROSPERO CRD42021234531.
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Metadata
Title
Effects of home visits on quality of life among older adults: a systematic review protocol
Authors
Yea Lu Tay
Nurul Salwana Abu Bakar
Ruzimah Tumiran
Noor Hasidah Ab Rahman
Noor Areefa Ameera Mohd Ma’amor
Weng Keong Yau
Zalilah Abdullah
Publication date
01-12-2021
Publisher
BioMed Central
Keywords
Dementia
Dementia
Published in
Systematic Reviews / Issue 1/2021
Electronic ISSN: 2046-4053
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-021-01862-8

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