A core capability framework for physiotherapists to deliver quality care when working with people living with dementia and their families/caregivers: an international modified e-Delphi study
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Abstract
ObjectiveWhat are the core capabilities physiotherapists need to deliver quality care when working with people with dementia and their families/caregivers?DesignA three-round modified e-Delphi study.ParticipantsPanel members were physiotherapists experienced in working with people with dementia and/or educating and/or researching in the dementia field.MethodsA steering group (16 international physiotherapists and a consumer) developed a draft framework including 129 core capabilities across 5 domains for panel members to rate their appropriateness for inclusion as a core capability to provide high quality care to people with dementia and their caregivers/families. The RAND/UCLA method was used to assess consensus.ResultsThirty-five physiotherapists from 11 countries participated in Round 1, 31 (89%) in Round 2 and 28 (80% of Round 1) in Round 3. All core capabilities were rated appropriate for inclusion in each round. Panel members recommended wording refinements across the rounds and suggested 52 core capabilities for consideration. Three rounds were needed to reach consensus, resulting in 137 core capabilities rated appropriate for inclusion across 5 domains: 1) Knowledge and understanding, n=36; 2) Assessment, n=39; 3) Management, interventions and prevention n=40; 4) Communication, therapeutic relationship and person-centred care, n=17; and 5) Physiotherapists self-management and improvement, n=5.ConclusionsThis e-Delphi outlines the core capabilities physiotherapists need to provide high quality care to people with dementia and their families/caregivers. These core capabilities can be used by physiotherapists to help identify knowledge/skill gaps, as well as by educators to improve their training of undergraduate and postgraduate students, and clinicians.Contribution of the paper•This e-Delphi study has developed, through expert consensus, the first comprehensive physiotherapy specific core capability framework for providing high-quality care to people with dementia and their families/caregivers.•The core capability framework can be used by physiotherapists to identify knowledge and/or skill gaps, and by physiotherapy educators to assist with entry-level and post-graduate curriculum development and student/workforce training.As physiotherapists play a vital role in working with people with dementia and their caregivers/families, and competencies lie at the heart of effective quality care and service delivery, the newly developed core capability framework serves as basis for broader consultation and input.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".