Feasibility of elder mistreatment screening tool, VOICES, for older adults with disabilities

7.项目摘要--摘要 虐待老年人是一个主要的公共卫生问题，患病率估计在7.6%到12.7%之间 在老年人中。EM给受害者造成了严重的不良后果，包括受伤，增加服务 被利用、精神痛苦和死亡率增加。克服EM的一个主要障碍是无法 准确识别EM患者。据估计，只有1/24的病例为当局所知。这是 这是有问题的，因为老年人不太可能报告他们受到虐待。改善对以下疾病的筛选 EM和促进自我展示我们将研究虚拟教练在做出知情选择方面的可行性 论虐待长辈的自我表露(声音)。这个项目的首要目标是让声音 在平板电脑上，并被老年人的屏幕用于EM。Voice将利用虚拟教练、互动 多媒体库(例如，图形、视频剪辑、动画等)、形成电子屏幕的技术 亲密伴侣暴力，以及旨在提高老年人对EM的认同感的简短励志访谈 成年人。与没有残疾的成年人相比，有残疾的成年人患EM的风险更大。这是一个人口 我们希望将其纳入我们的研究研究，以帮助使我们的工具更具包容性。我们最初的概念是 把这个工具介绍给60岁以上的老年人，不重听或没有视觉障碍，这将阻止 他们使用iPad的能力。这一补充请求将使我们能够扩大患者的范围 将我们以前不能包括在初始研究设计中的残疾成年人包括在内。我们的 目标是：1)对老年人语音筛选工具的可用性进行初步评估 视觉或听力障碍者；2)增强和改进交互式语音工具，使其成为 对于有视觉或听力障碍的老年人，可用并可接受。

7. PROJECT SUMMARY - ABSTRACT Elder mistreatment (EM) is a major public health problem with prevalence estimate ranges from 7.6% to 12.7% among older adults. EM causes serious adverse outcomes for its victims including injury, increased service utilization, mental distress and increased mortality. A major barrier in overcoming EM is the inability to accurately identify EM victims. It is estimated that only 1 in 24 cases become known to authorities. This is problematic as older adults are not likely to report that they are being mistreated. To improve the screening for EM and promote self-disclosure we will study the Feasibility of Virtual cOaching in making Informed Choices on Elder Mistreatment Self-Disclosure (VOICES). The overarching aim of this project is to VOICES that runs on tablets and used by older adult's screen for EM. VOICES will be utilizing virtual coaching, interactive multimedia libraries (e.g. graphics, video clips, animations, etc.), techniques form electronic screening for intimate partner violence, and brief motivational interviewing designed to enhance identifying EM among older adults. Adults with disabilities are at a greater risk of EM compared to those without. This is a population that we would like to include in our research study to help make our tool more inclusive. Our initial concept is to present this tool to older adults age 60+ not hard of hearing or without visual impairments that would prohibit their ability to use an iPad. This supplement request would allow us to increase the scope of the patient population to include adults with disabilities that we could not previously include in our initial study design. Our aims are: 1) To perform a preliminary evaluation of the usability of the VOICES screening tool for older individuals with visual or hearing disabilities; 2) To enhance and refine the interactive VOICES tool to be usable and acceptable for older adults with visual or hearing disabilities.