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A Psychogeriatric Rehabilitation Program in Long-Term Care Facilities.

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Mallya, Ashok; Fitz, Don – Gerontologist, 1987

Presents Project Adapt, a psychogeriatric rehabilitation service developed to integrate assessment, behavior and medication management, and outcome evaluation to meet needs of mentally ill in nursing homes. Notes that mental health staff perceived significantly more improvement among participating nursing home residents than among those not…

Descriptors: Geriatrics, Individual Needs, Institutionalized Persons, Mental Disorders

Attrition and Augmentation Biases in Time Series Analysis: Evaluation of Clinical Programs.

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Fitz, Don; Tryon, Warren W. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1989

Methods of using simplified time series analysis (STSA) in evaluating clinical programs are discussed. STSA assists in addressing problems of attrition/augmentation of subjects in programs with changing populations. Combining individually calculated "C" statistics in a simple aggregate analysis of restraint usage by nursing home staff…

Descriptors: Attrition (Research Studies), Clinics, Evaluation Problems, Experimental Groups