Collaborative practice to support community-based physical activity for young people with childhood-onset physical disability: A scoping review.
Karen Brady, Jennifer Ryan, Aoife Cooper and 3 others
PMID 41699938WHAT IT FOUND
Nine strategies helped healthcare and community providers collaborate to support physical activity for young people with disability.
However, these strategies were rarely defined clearly enough to copy, and none were evaluated for their effect on participation.
Key findings
01The review identified nine implementation strategies used to promote collaboration, such as programme planning, delivery, and knowledge sharing, across sixteen studies.
02Physiotherapists were the most common healthcare providers involved in these collaborations, participating in six of the eight interventions described.
03None of the included studies reported outcomes that evaluated the implementation strategies themselves, and most lacked sufficient detail to allow replication.
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What it does not show
The review did not search grey literature, which may have missed informal community collaboration practices. Only five databases were searched, and no studies from low- and middle-income countries were included. Most included studies were qualitative or pre-post designs, with only one randomized controlled trial. The review could not assess the effectiveness of the strategies because the primary studies did not evaluate them. Poor reporting in the original studies meant the reviewers had to infer some details about the strategies' timing and dose.
Declared interests
The authors declare no conflicts of interest. The review was supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and the Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship.
The easy way to misread this
Do not assume these collaboration strategies are proven to improve physical activity participation. The review found no evidence evaluating the strategies' effects, and the lack of detail means current descriptions are not replicable.
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