Publications by authors named "Alexandrine Boucher"

Background: Interventions to change health professionals' behaviour are often difficult to replicate. Incomplete reporting is a key reason and a source of waste in health research. We aimed to assess the reporting of shared decision making (SDM) interventions.

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Following publication of the original article [1], we have been notified that one of the authors' given name and last names are reversed and misspelled and thus not reflected correctly (given name now is Painchaud-Guérard and it should be Geneviève and last name now is Geneviève and it should be Painchaud Guérard).

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Background: Making health-related decisions about loved ones with cognitive impairment may contribute to caregiver burden of care. We sought to explore factors associated with burden of care among informal caregivers who had made housing decisions on behalf of a cognitively impaired older person.

Methods: We conducted a secondary analysis within a cluster randomized trial (cRT) conducted in 16 publicly-funded home care service points across the Province of Quebec.

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Article Synopsis
  • Shared decision making (SDM) is a collaborative approach to healthcare that few patients know about, prompting a study to raise awareness through workshops in public libraries.
  • The workshops, focusing on antibiotic overuse in treating respiratory infections, were co-designed by a team including library officials and physicians, and were well-received based on participant feedback.
  • Results showed significant knowledge gains in both antibiotics and SDM, with high participant satisfaction and suggestions for improvement gathered in a focus group post-workshop.
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