Falls prevention in rural general practice: what stands the test of time and where to from here? Barnett, Lisa, van Beurden, Eric, Eakin, Elizabeth, Dietrich, Uta, Beard, John and Newman, Beth 2003, Falls prevention in rural general practice: what stands the test of time and where to from here?, Australian and New Zealand journal of public health, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 481-485, doi: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.2003.tb00818.x. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Falls prevention in rural general practice: what stands the test of time and where to from here? Author(s) Barnett, Lisa orcid.org/0000-0002-9731-625X van Beurden, Eric Eakin, Elizabeth Dietrich, Uta Beard, John Newman, Beth Journal name Australian and New Zealand journal of public health Volume number 27 Issue number 5 Start page 481 End page 485 Publisher Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia Place of publication Richmond, Vic. Publication date 2003-10 ISSN 1326-0200 1753-6405 Summary Objective: General practitioner recall of the 1992–96 'Stay on Your Feet' (SOYF) program and its influence on practice were surveyed five years post-intervention to gauge sustainability of the SOYF General Practice (GP) component. Methods: A survey assessed which SOYF components were still in existence, current practice related to falls prevention, and interest in professional development. All general practitioners (GPs) situated within the boundaries of a rural Area Health Service were mailed a survey in late 2001. Results: Response rate was 66.5% (139/209). Of 117 GPs in practice at the time of SOYF, 80.2% reported having heard of SOYF and 74.4% of those felt it had influenced practice. Half (50.9%) still had a copy of the SOYF GP resource and of those, 58.6% used it at least 'occasionally'. Three-quarters of GPs surveyed (75.2%) checked medications 'most/almost all' of the time with patients over 60 years; 46.7% assessed falls risk factors; 41.3% gave advice; and 22.6% referred to allied health practitioners. GPs indicated a strong interest in falls prevention-related professional development. There was no significant association between use of the SOYF resource package and any of the current falls prevention practices (all χ2 >0.05). Conclusions and implications: There was high recall of SOYF and a general belief that it influenced practice. There was little indication that use of the resource had any lasting influence on GPs' practices. In future, careful thought needs to go into designing a program that has potential to affect long-term change in GPs' falls prevention practice. Language eng DOI 10.1111/j.1467-842X.2003.tb00818.x Field of Research 111716 Preventive Medicine Socio Economic Objective 970111 Expanding Knowledge in the Medical and Health Sciences HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2003, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30022514 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Health School of Health and Social Development Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Tue, 19 Jan 2010, 13:52:52 EST Tue, 16 Feb 2010, 13:12:42 EST Tue, 16 Feb 2010, 13:13:57 EST Tue, 02 Nov 2010, 09:17:44 EST Wed, 25 Sep 2013, 15:44:57 EST Wed, 25 Sep 2013, 15:45:31 EST Wed, 25 Sep 2013, 15:47:16 EST Tue, 01 Oct 2013, 10:19:58 EST Mon, 16 Jun 2014, 14:02:09 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 7 times in TR Web of Science Cited 8 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 1098 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Tue, 19 Jan 2010, 13:52:52 EST