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Community disability prevention programs show lower functional outcomes in real-world replication compared to clinical trials. Enhancing client self-efficacy and utilizing smaller, urban sites can improve outcomes in practice.

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Area of Science:

Gerontology and Public Health
Translational Research in Healthcare
Community-Based Interventions

Background:

Effective community disability prevention programs are crucial for elder well-being and reducing long-term care costs.
Replicating clinical trial successes into real-world practice settings presents significant challenges.
Understanding discrepancies between clinical trials and real-world replication is vital for improving interventions.

Purpose of the Study:

To compare functional changes between replication and clinical trial settings.
To compare program structures and processes of care in replication versus clinical trials.
To examine how client and site features in replication are associated with functional outcomes.

Main Methods:

Utilized secondary longitudinal data from 719 elder clients and primary interview data from replication site staff.
Compared replication data with original clinical trial data.
Employed multivariate and logistic models to analyze associations between baseline self-efficacy, site features, and functional outcomes.

Main Results:

Replication efforts demonstrated lower functional outcome changes and less intense program structures/processes than the original clinical trial.
Higher baseline client self-efficacy positively predicted 12-month functional outcomes in the replication.
Smaller and urban replication sites yielded better functional outcomes compared to larger and rural sites.

Conclusions:

Systemic strategies are needed to improve research translation and resource utilization for community-based elder programs.
Practitioners should prioritize client self-efficacy enhancement techniques to improve functional outcomes in replication studies.
Site characteristics, such as size and location, influence the effectiveness of disability prevention programs in real-world settings.