The clinical experiences of Nigerian physiotherapists in managing environmental and socioeconomic determinants of mobility for older adults.
Conclusion: This study suggested three iterative stages of identification, intervention, and documentation of the environmental and socioeconomic determinants of mobility for older adults. While there was a potential gap in regard to documentation of these stages in patients' case notes, physiotherapists especially in North-central Nigeria believed that co-developing a pragmatic set of clinical questions focusing on these determinants of mobility could encourage physiotherapists to explicitly document them. As the approach used in our research is purely descriptive, a grounded theory approach would potentially provide more detailed sub-stages that could be a more effective guide for physiotherapists to use during clinical practice.
PMID: 31822211 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Physiotherapy Theory and Practice - Category: Physiotherapy Authors: Nwankwo HC, Akinrolie O, Adandom I, Obi PC, Ojembe BU, Kalu ME Tags: Physiother Theory Pract Source Type: research
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