Facilitators and Barriers to Implementing French-Canadian Lifestyle Redesign® in Occupational Therapy Practice.

The study ran before any implementation attempt, so it reports what 58 people expected to happen, not what happened when the program was actually delivered. Participants were recruited in part through the research team's own contacts and were people already interested in prevention and health promotion; the authors say this may have produced more favourable views. The sample was relatively small and came from only two regions of Quebec. Only about 12% of the expert-partners knew the approach beforehand and none of them were trained in it, so their views rest on a single presentation. The first and senior authors delivered the training and the first author ran all eleven focus groups, which may have made participants reluctant to criticise the approach.

Funded by the Réseau québécois de recherche sur le vieillissement, with the funder named in the paper as the Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Santé. The first author was a doctoral student supported by CIHR and FRQS scholarships, and the senior author held a CIHR New Investigator award and a Tier 1 Canadian Research Chair. No separate competing-interest declaration appears in the text. Worth knowing when weighing the tone: the first and senior authors led the training in the approach and translated the source course, and the first author facilitated every focus group while the senior author attended as observer.

Do not read this as evidence that Remodeler sa vie works or that it can be rolled out. No one implemented the program here and no client outcomes were measured; the study collected opinions before implementation. The authors also note that recruiting people already interested in the approach may have produced more favourable answers.