FrAilty Care and wEll-funcTion in Community Dwelling Older Adults

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• Frailty 1,229
• Sarcopenia 1,240
• Motor Activity 2,646

Keywords

• well-being
• exercise
• physical activity
• nutrition
• gait

Frailty

1,229 studies on the registry are indexed under Frailty; 433 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 43 is below the median of 80 across 704 interventional studies indexed under Frailty.

Lead sponsor

Aberystwyth University is the lead sponsor of 9 studies on the registry; 1 is open to participants now.

Study arms

• Active comparator
  Professional led with online support

  The consultation is led by the professional and lifestyle recommendations are based on ViviFrail recommendations and personal experience of the professional. The 12-week intervention includes access to an online monitoring platform. The online platform provides the lifestyle recommendations and consists of a diary of activities, examples of exercises, general advice and instructions for monitoring and self-assessment.

  Behavioral: Consultation · Behavioral: Online Support

• Active comparator
  Professional led without online support

  The consultation is led by the professional and lifestyle recommendations are based on ViviFrail recommendations and personal experience of the professional. There is no access to the online monitoring platform, and lifestyle recommendations were provided on paper to the participant.

  Behavioral: Consultation

• Experimental
  Patient empowered with online support

  The consultation is led by the participant, and started with the questions 'What matters to you', and 'What are your goals'. The professional based the lifestyle recommendations based on these responses. The 12-week intervention includes access to an online monitoring platform. The online platform provides the lifestyle recommendations and consists of a diary of activities, examples of exercises, general advice and instructions for monitoring and self-assessment.

  Behavioral: Consultation · Behavioral: Online Support · Behavioral: Empowered

• Active comparator
  Patient empowered without online support

  The consultation is led by the participant, and started with the questions 'What matters to you', and 'What are your goals'. The professional based the lifestyle recommendations based on these responses. There is no access to the online monitoring platform, and lifestyle recommendations were provided on paper to the participant.

  Behavioral: Consultation · Behavioral: Empowered

Interventions

• BehavioralConsultation

  The consultation will provide advice (including a short written report) about promoting healthy lifestyles, tailored to the individual

  Also known as: Diet, exercise and physical activity advice

• BehavioralOnline Support

  The participant will have access to an online platform 'FACET', to monitor themselves periodically, obtain feedback about their functional ability, receive recommended diet, exercise and physical activity interventions and record the adherence to any intervention.

• BehavioralEmpowered

  The participant will be actively encouraged to contribute to their own consultation and take co-ownership and responsibility for the action plan.

Primary outcomes

1. Pilot Evaluation - Percentage of Participants Retained at Follow up

   Percentage of participants returned at follow up, reflects the ability to recruit and retain participants. Recruitment took place over a period of 3 months, to recruit 42 participants, with a recruitment rate of 14 participants per month.

   Time frame: 3 Months

2. Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS)

   Scored with the total score ( range of 14-70), and higher scores reflecting better well-being.

   Time frame: 3 months

3. Short Physical Performance Battery

   Consists of Walking speed, balance, and chair stand test performance. Scored based on a score of 0-4 on each test, which are then added. A total maximum score of 12 reflecting good physical performance and thus higher scores indicate better outcome..

   Time frame: 3 months

Secondary outcomes

1. SNAQ -Dietary Analysis

   The SNAQ was used to provide a single outcome variable for this. Was originally: Food diary and urine metabolomics for the ingestion of food components (meats, fish, legumes and fruits), with emphasis on the quantification of the total protein intake. SNAQ: Simplified Nutritional Appetite Questionnaire. Scale from 5-25, with higher scores indicating better outcome

   Time frame: 3 months

2. Timed-up-and go

   The ability to get up from a chair, walk three meters to turn around a cone, and return to sit down again.

   Time frame: 3 months

3. Quality of Life SF36

   the Quality of Life Short Form -36. Scored with the total score (0-100), and higher scores reflecting better quality of life.

   Time frame: 3 months

4. Grip Strength

   Measured with a hand held grip dynamometer. Measured in kilograms, with higher values reflecting higher strength

   Time frame: 3 months

Other outcomes

1. Six Minute Walking Performance

   Quantifies the distance able to walk during six minutes

   Time frame: 3 months

Baseline characteristics

5 further baseline measures are reported on the registry.

Publications

• Valdes-Aragones M, Perez-Rodriguez R, Carnicero JA, Moreno-Sanchez PA, Oviedo-Briones M, Villalba-Mora E, Abizanda-Soler P, Rodriguez-Manas L. Effects of Monitoring Frailty Through a Mobile/Web-Based Application and a Sensor Kit to Prevent Functional Decline in Frail and Prefrail Older Adults: FACET (Frailty Care and Well Function) Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. J Med Internet Res. 2024 Oct 22;26:e58312. doi: 10.2196/58312. PubMed 39436684 ↗

Study documents

• Protocol and statistical analysis plan · Mar 28, 2018

Documents are hosted by the registry — open the source record to download them.

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No