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SynthesisAge and ageing2022

Interventions for self-management of medicines for community-dwelling people with dementia and mild cognitive impairment and their family carers: a systematic review.

Catherine Powell, Justine Tomlinson, Catherine Quinn, Beth Fylan

Open access · hybridAbstract readSystematic Review
In one paragraph

Synthesis in Age and ageing, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Patient and family engagement interventions in primary care patient safety: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2025
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  10. A rapid review of interventions to improve medicine self-management for older people living at home.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Catherine PowellSchool of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7590-0247
Justine TomlinsonSchool of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3911-0701
Catherine QuinnCentre for Applied Dementia Studies, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9553-853X
Beth FylanSchool of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK.
University of Bradford · GB

Funding

Department of Health
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundpeople with dementia or mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and their family carers face challenges in managing medicines. How medicine self-management could be supported for this population is unclear. This review identifies interventions to improve medicine self-management for people with dementia and MCI and their family carers, and the core components of medicine self-management that they address.

methodsa database search was conducted for studies with all research designs and ongoing citation search from inception to December 2021. The selection criteria included community-dwelling people with dementia and MCI and their family carers, and interventions with a minimum of one medicine self-management component. The exclusion criteria were wrong population, not focusing on medicine management, incorrect medicine self-management components, not in English and wrong study design. The results are presented and analysed through narrative synthesis. The review is registered [PROSPERO (CRD42020213302)]. Quality assessment was carried out independently applying the QATSDD quality assessment tool.

results13 interventions were identified. Interventions primarily addressed adherence. A limited number focused on a wider range of medicine self-management components. Complex psychosocial interventions with frequent visits considered the person's knowledge and understanding, supply management, monitoring effects and side effects and communicating with healthcare professionals, and addressed more resilience capabilities. However, these interventions were delivered to family carers alone. None of the interventions described patient and public involvement.

conclusioninterventions, and measures to assess self-management, need to be developed which can address all components of medicine self-management to better meet the needs of people with dementia and MCI and their family carers.

Indexed as

Cognitive DysfunctionDementiaSelf-ManagementCaregiversHumansIndependent Livingcommunity dwellingdementiamedicinemild cognitive impairmentolder peoplesystematic review

Identifiers

PMID35639800
PMCPMC9154223
OpenAlexW4220996235

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