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Record W4415503343 · doi:10.12688/hrbopenres.14242.1

Staff, caregivers and family members’ experiences and perceptions of Intergenerational Programmes inclusive of people living with dementia: A qualitative evidence synthesis protocol

2025· article· en· W4415503343 on OpenAlexafffund
Owen Harney, Greet Cardon, Jones Ch, Siobhán Smyth, Michelle Quinn, Marita Hennessy, Ciara E. O’Reilly, Edel Quinn, Catherine Houghton

Bibliographic record

VenueHRB Open Research · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicIntergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
Canadian institutionsTrinity College
FundersAlzheimer SocietyUniversity of GalwayHealth Research Board
KeywordsThematic analysisQualitative researchPerceptionProtocol (science)Stigma (botany)Health careFocus groupDementiaInclusion (mineral)Set (abstract data type)

Abstract

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<ns3:p> Background Opportunities for social engagement for people living with dementia are often limited due to a lack of understanding and empathy, as well as stigma associated with dementia. Intergenerational (IG) programmes are formal activities which bring generations together meaningfully. Although benefits of IG programmes have been reported for people living with dementia, more research is needed to understand these programmes and their effects. Specifically, while a recent qualitative evidence synthesis (QES) reported on experiences and perceptions of people living with dementia and young people, of IG programmes (Houghton <ns3:italic>et al.</ns3:italic> , 2022), there has been limited work synthesising research on the perspectives of healthcare staff, teachers, family members, and informal carers regarding their involvement. Including the range of perspectives from other parties is essential in understanding the nature and potential benefits of such programmes, as well as in identifying design considerations for future IG programmes in Ireland. Methods This is a protocol for a QES of peer-reviewed qualitative papers addressing the experiences and perceptions of healthcare staff, teachers, family members, and informal carers regarding IG programmes inclusive of people living with dementia. A systematic search of 7 databases will be conducted, as well as backward and forward citation checks. Two authors will independently screen texts for inclusion. It is anticipated that thematic synthesis will be used for all included studies. The methodological limitations of studies will be assessed using an adapted CASP tool and confidence in the review findings using GRADE CERQual. Discussion IG programmes involve engagement across multiple parties. Developing an understanding of the perspectives of all involved is critical in identifying factors contributing to successful IG programmes, and informing the design and implementation of future IG programmes. This QES will extend the literature and provide key considerations to guide the design and delivery of future IG programmes in Ireland. </ns3:p>

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

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)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.145
Threshold uncertainty score0.993

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
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 head0.059
GPT teacher head0.465
Teacher spread0.407 · 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.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Published2025
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