What is the McMaster Optimal Aging Portal and How is it Relevant to Public Health?
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What is the McMaster Optimal Aging Portal and How is it Relevant to Public Health?
- 1. What is the McMaster Optimal Aging Portal and how is it relevant to public health? Maureen Dobbins Professor and Scientific Director, National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools, McMaster University Health Evidence Webinar Series January 21 1:00-2:30pm EDT
- 2. Poll Question #1 How often do your older clients (aged 50+) use the internet to get health information? A. Everyday B. Once per week or more C. Once per month or more D. Less than once per month
- 4. Who is the Portal for? Why?
- 8. McMaster Optimal Aging Portal Best Evidence/ Evidence Summaries Web Resource Ratings Blog PostsSearch & Browse Email Alerts Components
- 10. Contributors - Researchers Brian HaynesParminder RainaMaureen DobbinsJohn LavisAnthony Levinson
- 11. Key Content Evidence Summaries, Web Resource Ratings, Blog Posts and Email Alerts
- 12. Evidence Summaries What are they? Key messages from scientific research Written in plain language Why are they useful? Translated from our jargon Ready to be acted on
- 15. Web Resource Ratings What are they? Evaluations of health resources on the internet Why are they useful? Help you know which web-based resources are based on scientific research
- 17. Web Resource Rater: Overview Three stages of Web Resource Rating: 1. Assessing inclusion of websites 2. Assessing inclusion of web resources from included websites 3. Assessing quality of included web resources
- 18. Web Resource Rater: Inclusion Criteria Websites must be: A. Not directly funded by a company trying to sell you a product or service B. Relevant to optimal aging C. Intended for citizens, or include content intended for citizens D. Free access Web resources must be: A. Not directly funded by a company trying to sell you a product or service B. Relevant to optimal aging C. Intended for citizens D. Less than 5 years of age
- 19. Web Resource Rater: Quality Criteria Included web resources are rated for quality by two independent raters assessing: • Evidence-based: Is this information reliable, based on scientific research? • Transparency: Is it clear who developed the resource and how? • Usability: Is the information easy to understand and easy to use? A ‘five-star’ overall rating is generated, weighted to favour web resources that use research evidence
- 20. Web Resource Rater Browse related topics Direct link to the article Summary message Star rating (/5) View rating criteria
- 21. Blog Posts What are they? Commentaries on what the research means Why are they useful? Translated from our jargon Presented in article format
- 23. Blog Posts
- 24. Blog Posts
- 25. Content for professionals What is it? Best evidence databases for: Clinicians Public health professionals Policymaker Why is it useful? Easy access to the latest aging research, rated for quality Base your health care advice on solid evidence
- 28. Email alerts What are they? Lists of new content recently added to Portal Sign up for weekly or monthly emails Why are they useful? Links in email take you directly to content Keeps you up to date with new research
- 30. @Mac_AgingNews Twitter feed What is it? Outreach through the media about aging issues Daily tweets about NEWS ‘hitting the headlines’ and related EVIDENCE from the McMaster Optimal Aging Portal Why is it useful? News outlets cover lots of stories, emphasis usually on drama not substance. Access to trustworthy evidence behind issues or advice in the news Reliable answers to questions from your clients or patients 30
- 33. Browse topics What is the browse function? Look for Evidence Summaries, Web Resource Ratings and Blog Posts by topic Why is it useful? We’ve categorized the content for you Explore an area of interest
- 37. Browse topics
- 39. Search topics What is the search function? Enter search terms and search across citizen content Also see results for professionals Why is it useful? Find more specific content View relevant results for all types of content
- 40. Vitamins
- 48. Professional Search: Public Health
- 54. Search tips Start your search using broad, general terms “diabetes”, “exercise”, “depression” If too many results, refine your search terms “exercise and falls”, “diabetes and heart disease” Check for results across databases
- 56. Poll Question #2 Did you find today’s webinar useful? Yes Somewhat No
- 57. Poll Question #3 Do you plan on using the Portal in the future? Yes Maybe No
- 58. Poll Question #4 Would you recommend the Portal to your family and/or friends? Yes Maybe No
- 59. Contact Information Dr. Maureen Dobbins dobbinsm@mcmaster.ca 905-525-9140 ext. 20455 59 www.mcmasteroptimalaging.org
Editor's Notes
- Objective: Participants will learn how to use the Web Resource Ratings feature of the Portal to sort through the masses of health-related information on the internet in order to identify only the most high-quality, trustworthy and reliable information about optimal aging.
- What are the needs of aging Canadians? Stay active, healthy and engaged Age in home or community To do so, seniors need easy access to understandable and credible information *** Systemic barrier to integrating care for older adults “We do little to empower older adults and caregivers with the information they need to navigate the system.” Recommended action to support aging in place “Invest more in health promotion and prevention in older adults.” From: S. Sinha, “Report submitted to the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care and the Minister Responsible for Seniors on recommendations to inform a Seniors Strategy for Ontario,” December, 2012
- (Healthy senior: Healthy aging) Wants more info about these topics in order to stay healthy as she ages.
- (Frail senior: risk prevention and management of chronic conditions) Nurse / PHP assisting Norman as he re-adjusts to life at home after being discharged from hospital after a fall.
- Include?
- Delete?
- Contents McMaster PLUS for clinical evidence (‘my health’) Health Evidence for public health evidence (‘our health’) Health Systems Evidence for health systems evidence (‘our system’) Each re-coded to identify evidence relevant to 60+, health promotion & disease prevention, etc. and re-programmed to establish a common platform
- Bolded words have scroll-over definitions (eg. “randomized controlled trials” here)
- Web Resource Ratings main page
- All excluded websites listed on: http://www.mcmasteroptimalaging.org/citizens/web-resource-rater/excluded-websites Examples of websites that have not met the inclusion criteria: Doctor Oz show: website is funded by a company trying to sell you a product or service EvidenceUpdates from BMJ – website is not freely-accessible (requires login) American Academy of Family Physicians – website is not relevant to optimal aging for a citizen audience (targets physicians)
- This is what a user sees when they get a WR for a search result
- Article includes bottom line and links to related content (next slide)
- Bottom of blog posts = links to related content (eg here: exercise and dementia)
- PHP main page
- Media focus on drama (dramatic findings from a new study, dramatic events with no mention of related scientific research), not substance
- Recent example re: health benefits of vitamin D
- Look at webinar ppt for screen shots here
- Browse topics main page (not a complete list of health conditions here)
- Wants more info about these topics in order to stay healthy as she ages.
- Linda: interest in exercise and vitamins Browse “Complementary and alternative medicine”
- Browse topics specific to exercise and vitamins = complementary and alternative medicine
- Citizen search if you are registered as a Citizen.
- Default is Evidence Summaries. Choose from these, or select Web Resource ratings.
- As her PHP, you can look up the evidence around benefits of vitamins to talk about with Linda. She can also look at these at home.
- Nurse / PHP assisting Norman as he re-adjusts to life at home after being discharged from hospital after a fall.
- Browse: fall and injury prevention
- TOP PH SEARCHES FOR LAST MONTH: exercise dementia Arthritis Falls diabetes
- Auto fill to help guide or narrow your search
- PHP articles from HE database of systematic reviews, rated for quality
- PHP Systematic Reviews: Abstracts searchable on OAP Links from abstracts to full-text article (save to your files or email to others) Pub-Med link (side-bars with related content, other articles which cited this one, etc) Some = Plain language summary or Evidence Summary (useful for quick overview of the issue, explaining or forwarding to your patients/client groups)
- Evidence summaries based on these systematic reviews (could also check WRRs and Blog posts from here… no slides to show this)
- Example of an Evidence Summary
- We could ask one additional question of whether they will recommend the portal to family and/or friends