Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirment in Europe (SHARE)

Completed

• Conditions: chronic conditions common in old age; high blood sugar; 10012653; 10001474

• Registration Number: NL-OMON40583
• Lead Sponsor: Dutch Country Team of SHARE, Prof. A. van Soest

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Last Update Posted: 23 April 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: Not specified
• Target Recruitment: 4000

Inclusion Criteria

SHARE is a face-to-face interview that takes place in the respondents' homes using CAPI (Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing) software. In the middle of the interview the collection of DBS samples is conducted. Of course, the participation is absolutely voluntary (with regard to the SHARE study as well as regarding the collection of the DBS samples). All participating respondents will be asked for their (informed and written) consent to have their blood collected for DBS samples.

Exclusion Criteria

If for whatever reasons a respondent is not able or willing to consent with regard to the dried blood spots collection, no blood will be collected and this part of the study will be skipped entirely. Furthermore, we will not collect blood in case the interview is a proxy-interview (i.e. an interview not with the originally sampled person but with another person who knows him/her well) or if the respondent is not able to understand the information given to him/her prior to the DBS sample collection and/or to agree to the collection of blood spots.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Observational invasive
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>SHARE's main aim is to provide data on individuals as they age and their<br /><br>environment in order to analyse the process of individual and population ageing<br /><br>in depth. SHARE is a distributed European research infrastructure which<br /><br>provides data for social scientists, including demographers, economists,<br /><br>psychologists, sociologists, biologists, epidemiologists, public health and<br /><br>health policy experts, who are interested in population aging.</p><br>

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>Not applicable</p><br>