Publications by authors named "Anna Maddalena Basso"
Article Synopsis
- Chronic diseases in older adults create significant healthcare challenges, highlighting the importance of medication adherence for treatment success, especially among frail individuals in community settings.
- A new tool called the Therapeutic Adherence Scale (TAS) was developed to measure medication adherence in this population, through a process involving content validity and psychometric testing.
- The TAS is a brief, reliable, and valid four-item self-report measure, with promising results indicating its utility in both practical and research scenarios, being freely accessible for wider use.
This article reports the study protocol of a nationwide multicentric study in seven Italian regions aimed at assessing the effectiveness of a digitally supported approach for the early screening of frailty risk factors in community-dwelling older adults. SUNFRAIL+ is a prospective observational cohort study aimed at carrying out a multidimensional assessment of community-dwelling older adults through an IT platform, which allows to connect the items of the SUNFRAIL frailty assessment tool with a cascading multidimensional in-depth assessment of the bio-psycho-social domains of frailty. Seven centers in seven Italian regions will administer the SUNFRAIL questionnaire to 100 older adults.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: According to the World Health Organization (WHO), falls and falls related-injuries are a main issue for health and social systems in Europe and all over the world, particularly considering that life is lengthening.
Objective: To describe incidence, causes and falls modalities in a Northern Italian Hospital following the organizational changes set up in 2008.
Methods: The survey consists of two steps: 1.
In modern health-care , nursing managers play a strategic role in improving the quality of care and the skills of carers, since management and leadership strategies are known to be decisive in the deployment of resources and professional development. The aim of this study is to present the opinions and expectations of nursing coordinators regarding their managerial role. During the creation of a nursing service unifying the management of 3 local health authorities in Northern Italy, with different organizational and professional features, nursing coordinators were asked to fill in a questionnaire.
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