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Record W4407558175 · doi:10.1111/1440-1630.70000

Influence of personalised citizen assistance for social participation (APIC) on health, social participation, and life satisfaction: Perspectives from older adults and attendants

2025· article· en· W4407558175 on OpenAlexafffund
Janie Gobeil, Marie‐France Dubois, Mélanie Levasseur

Bibliographic record

VenueAustralian Occupational Therapy Journal · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicOccupational Therapy Practice and Research
Canadian institutionsHealth and Social Services Centre University Institute of Geriatrics of SherbrookeUniversité de Sherbrooke
FundersFonds de Recherche du Québec - SantéCanadian Institutes of Health Research
KeywordsIntervention (counseling)GerontologyMental healthSocial engagementPsychologyLife satisfactionPopulationMedicineNursingEnvironmental healthPsychiatrySocial psychology

Abstract

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INTRODUCTION: The personalised citizen assistance for social participation (APIC) is promising to foster health and social participation of older adults with disabilities, especially when working in collaboration with occupational therapists. When implemented by community organisations, little is known about the influence of APIC on older adults, including perspectives of older adults and attendants. This study aimed to explore the short-term influence of APIC on physical and mental health, social participation, and life satisfaction of older adults with disabilities by considering the perspectives of older adults and their attendant. METHODS: A mixed methods study was carried out by a team, including two occupational therapists. Twelve attendants were interviewed, and 12 older adults completed questionnaires about their health, social participation, and life satisfaction before and after the APIC. RESULTS: Improvements in mental health, social participation, and life satisfaction were found. The influence of APIC was generally more subtle than expected and greatly affected by older adults' personal and environmental factors. CONSUMER AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT: This study was possible because of the collaboration between researchers, health-care professionals, community organisations, volunteers, and older adults. CONCLUSION: The APIC might have a limited influence on the physical health of older adults with disabilities. Future studies examining the effects of this intervention on different levels of disabilities are recommended to target the best suited population. PLAIN LANGUAGE SUMMARY: The personalised citizen assistance for social participation (APIC) is a 12-month intervention in which an older adult with disabilities (i.e., having difficulty to perform daily activities) meets weekly with a volunteer to experiment social activities. Although promising, little is known about the influence of APIC on older adults. This study explores the influence of APIC on the health, social participation (i.e., involvement in activities that provide interactions with others), and life satisfaction of older adults with disabilities. The perspective of 12 older adults and 12 volunteers were considered. Improvements in mental health, social participation, and life satisfaction of older adults were observed, but the influence of APIC was greatly affected by other factors such as their physical capabilities and their place of residence. APIC seems to have a limited influence on the physical health of older adults with disabilities.

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.130
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.160
GPT teacher head0.517
Teacher spread0.357 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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