Evaluation of preventive home visits in elderly over 75 years

• Register: ANZCTR
• Last refreshed on: 13 January 2020
• Main ID: ACTRN12616001411437
• Date of registration: 10/10/2016
• Prospective Registration: No
• Primary sponsor: Pirjo Laitinen-Parkkonen
• Public title: Evaluation of preventive home visits in elderly over 75 years
• Scientific title: A randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effect of preventive home visits on well being in elderly over 75 years
• Date of first enrolment: 01/08/2013
• Target sample size: 392
• Recruitment status: Completed
• URL: https://anzctr.org.au/ACTRN12616001411437.aspx
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Purpose: Prevention; Allocation: Randomised controlled trial; Masking: Open (masking not used);Assignment: Parallel;

Countries of recruitment

Finland

Contacts

• Name: Dr Pekka Lampela

• Name: Dr Pekka Lampela

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Elderly over 75 years without regular home or institutional care
Exclusion criteria: Home or institutional care
age under 75 years

Age minimum: 75 Years
Age maximum: No limit
Gender: Both males and females

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Public Health - Health service research

Well being in the elderly;
Well being in the elderly

Intervention(s)

multidiciplinary home visits two years observation. The preventive home visits were delivered by a nurse with experience of working with geriatric patients, a physiotherapist and a social worker. The team of professionals had a possibility to consult a doctor from a geriatric ward if needed. The intervention protocol was planned and discussed together with all the team members, including the doctor, and uniform instructions were given personally and on paper to all of the persons delivering the home visits.
All professionals visited the participants of the intervention group once. The three home visits were delivered during a time period of 6 to 9 months, first the nurse visit, second the physiotherapist visit and the social worker visit last. The interval between each visit to the participant was circa 3 months, but due to practical arrangements (vacations etc.) the interval varied from 1 month to 6 months. Most of the visits were delivered with 3 month intervals.

The nurse home visit lasted 1-1,5 hours per participant. During the home visit the nurse made a structured assessment on functioning, quality of life, nutrition, memory functions, depression, activities of daily living and instrumental activities on daily living.The nurse also measured blood pressure and blood glucose levels of the participant. The participant was given information about the different health and social services offered by the municipality and local voluntary and third sector organizations. If concerns on the health or well-being of the participant arouse from the visit, the nurse directed them to contact their family doctor, the memory clinic or other suitable health or social service and left written contact information of the consequential services.

Physiotherapist home vi

Primary Outcome(s)

D15 Well being scale change[2 years]

Secondary Outcome(s)

How much costs in Euros change in D15 (well being scale)[2 years]

Secondary ID(s)

Nil known

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Helsinki University Hospital

Secondary Sponsor(s)

Pekka Lampela

Ethics review

Status: Approved
Approval date:
Contact:

Helsinki University Hospital Ethics Committee