An interventional study of Senior meetings in Health Behavior, sponsored by Göteborg University. Completed at 1 site in Sweden. Open to participants aged 70 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2019-05-13.
Sponsored by Göteborg University · Not applicable, Interventional, and Prevention
The overarching aim with this study was to develop, implement and evaluate a health promoting programme for people from Finland or the Western Balkan region, who were 70 years of age or older and independent daily activites (1). The aim of the programme was to prevent or delay dependence in daily activities, health decline, and frailty. The study focused on both evaluation and implementation and the data collection finished in 2016
The study has developed tools for collaboration between the target group, staff and researchers, as well as with tools to bridge barriers to health promotion. For example, alternative ways to recruit participants and to collect and analyse data in studies with and for people who are ageing in a migration context.
The findings describe how a person-centred approach could be used to make use of the resources of the target groups, and visualise methods to bridge linguistic barriers. The education material from Older people in the risk zone has also been translated to Bosnian Serbo-Croatian and Finnish.
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This study's enrollment of 131 is close to the median of 120 across 213 interventional studies indexed under Health Behavior.
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The intervention will comprise four weekly meetings in small groups (4-6 participants) in addition to an individual follow-up home visit two to three weeks after the last senior meeting.The main purpose of the senior meetings is to give information and facilitate discussion of the ageing process and provide tools and suggest strategies to enable the clients to solve the various problems that may arise at home in order to remain living at home in a safe and secure way. The information will also include what the municipality provides in the form of local meeting places, activities run by local associations, physical training for seniors, walking groups, possibilities of offering or accepting help on a voluntary basis. Furthermore, they will be informed about help and support available in their city district. Identification of risks for, and advice on, how to prevent falls will also be included.
Behavioral: Senior meetings
The control group will receive conventional care on their own initiative.
The intervention will be led by professionals such as a registered occupational therapist, a nurse, a physical therapist, and a social worker. The intervention will comprise four weekly meetings in small groups (4-6 participants) in addition to an individual follow-up home visit two to three weeks after the last senior meeting. To use groups involve the possibility of peer education where participants in a person-centeredness perspective are seen as experts on their own situation and learn from each other. The relationship between the personnel and the participants in the senior meetings can be described as a partnership. Respect for the participant and his/her values, and that the participant gets an opportunity to maintain and develop their own power over their own everyday activities will be essential in the meeting.
Change of Activities of Daily Life (ADL)
The ADL-staircase
Time frame: change from baseline at 6 months and 1 year
Change of Sense of Coherence (KASAM)
KASAM (by Antonovsky)
Time frame: change from basline at 6 months and 1 year
Change of Fatigue
The Mob-T scale
Time frame: baseline, 6 months, and 1 year
Change of Grip strength
North Coast-dynamometer
Time frame: baseline, 6 months, and 1 year
Change of Physical activity
Questionnaire and Physical and domestic activity scale
Time frame: basline, 6 months, and 1 year
Change of Balance
The balance scale
Time frame: basline, 6 months, and 1 year
Change of Gait speed
Four-meter walking test
Time frame: basline, 6 months, and 1 year
Change of Weight loss
The Göteborg Quality of Life Instrument
Time frame: basline, 6 months, and 1 year
Change of Cognition
Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE)
Time frame: basline, 6 months, and 1 year
Change of Visual impairment
KM-visual acuity chart
Time frame: basline, 6 months, and 1 year
Change of Falls
Questionnaire
Time frame: basline, 6 months, and 1 year
Change of Fear of falls
FES-I
Time frame: baseline, 6 months, 1 year
Change of Illness
CIRS-G
Time frame: Baline, 6 months, and 1 year
Change of Symptoms
The Göteborg Quality of Life Instrument
Time frame: Basline, 6 months, and 1 year
Change of Change of Depression
GDS 20
Time frame: Baseline, 6 months, and 1 year
Health-care consumption
Register data
Time frame: Baseline, 6 months, and 1 year
The record gives a start of Aug 2012, a primary completion of Jan 2016 and a completion of Jan 2016. It does not say whether these dates are actual or estimated.
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