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Publisher: Emerald
Date: 28-08-2009
DOI: 10.1108/03055720911004003
Abstract: This paper aims to address the need for responsive methodologies to investigate how information and communication technologies (ICTs) are used in non‐business and non‐corporate environments. The paper presents a case study on developing an IT strategic plan in a community organisation using the process modelling and analysis methodology called “Co‐MAP”. Co‐MAP as a methodology is significant in being a participatory, responsive, and non‐obtrusive tool to work with welfare workers in getting to articulate information, knowledge and technical issues for decision making. The research provides a way of obtaining knowledge about structuring of social‐technical relationships in a welfare organisation through a sympathetic approach to its business and culture. Co‐MAP could be fruitfully used in other organisations, though whether this needs an external facilitator to carry out the process and manage the complex data analysis process is a moot point. The significance of this case study is that it develops a model for adaptation of how to research and represent data, information, and knowledge flows within a social services organisation, for which there are few other detailed case studies.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-11-2008
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 19-05-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 14-07-2009
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2022
Publisher: BMJ
Date: 12-2020
DOI: 10.1136/BMJOPEN-2020-040146
Abstract: To determine the effectiveness of combined exercise-nutrition interventions in prefrail/frail hospitalised older adults on frailty, frailty-related indicators, quality of life (QoL), falls and its cost-effectiveness. Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of combined exercise-nutrition interventions on hospitalised prefrail/frail older adults ≥65 years were collated from MEDLINE, Emcare, CINAHL, Ageline, Scopus, Cochrane and PEDro on 10 October 2019. The methodological quality was appraised, and data were summarised descriptively or by meta-analysis using a fixed effects model. The standardised mean difference (SMD) or difference of means (MD) with 95% CIs was calculated. Twenty articles from 11 RCTs experimenting exercise-nutrition interventions on hospitalised older adults were included. Seven articles were suitable for the meta-analyses. One study had low risk of bias and found improvements in physical performance and frailty-related biomarkers. Exercise interventions were mostly supervised by a physiotherapist, focusing on strength, ranging 2–5 times/week, of 20–90 min duration. Most nutrition interventions involved counselling and supplementation but had dietitian supervision in only three studies. The meta-analyses suggest that participants who received exercise-nutrition intervention had greater reduction in frailty scores (n=3, SMD 0.25 95% CI 0.03 to 0.46 p=0.02) and improvement in short physical performance battery (SPPB) scores (n=3, MD 0.48 95% CI 0.12 to 0.84 p=0.008) compared with standard care. Only the chair-stand test (n=3) out of the three SPPB components was significantly improved (MD 0.26 95% CI 0.09 to 0.43 p=0.003). Patients were more independent in activities of daily living in intervention groups, but high heterogeneity was observed (I 2 =96%, p .001). The pooled effect for handgrip (n=3)±knee extension muscle strength (n=4) was not statistically significant. Nutritional status, cognition, biomarkers, QoL, falls and cost-effectiveness were summarised descriptively due to insufficient data. There is evidence, albeit weak, showing that exercise-nutrition interventions are effective to improve frailty and frailty-related indicators in hospitalised older adults.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2012
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-12-2010
Publisher: ACM
Date: 07-12-2013
Publisher: ACM
Date: 27-06-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 30-03-2023
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2014
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 24-03-2014
DOI: 10.1017/S1474746414000098
Abstract: Based on research in Australia, this article offers explanatory concepts about how welfare workers deal with contradictions between the rationalising ‘informationalisation’ of welfare system governance and the demands of people-centred welfare practice, or ‘technologies of care’. While the situation in Australia with respect to the relationship between government, funders and welfare workers may not be mirrored in other places, the concepts are relevant for the development of local research, insights and practice. Suggestions are also made for further action to bridge the gap between information systems design and welfare practice through the adoption of a dialogic and representational system for more effective interoperable design that reflects the needs of the major parties involved, including funders, designers and particularly welfare workers.
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 2010
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-057-0.CH005
Abstract: This chapter considers Gunilla Bradley’s model of technology-in-society as an empirically-focused exercise that reveals psycho-social factors which effect can affect institutional well-being, and that the study of ICTs in society demands a much broader range of understandings of social interaction that has been traditionally associated with Information Systems. Her model also shows that that the study of ICTs in society demands a much broader range of understandings of social interaction that has been traditionally associated with Information Systems. Her model can be enriched by comparison to theories and models, which have emerged from the structuration theory associated with Anthony Giddens, which provides considerable insight about how institutional behaviours are created and transmitted across time and space through the medium of ICTs. This linkage moves the Bradley model from a somewhat functionalist position to one that is more accommodating of human agency, innovation, change, and conflict in different types of social and institutional settings.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-05-2014
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2006
DOI: 10.1007/11915034_47
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