RCT of Health-promoting Intervention for Older Foreign-born Adults
- Conditions
- Health Behavior
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Senior meetings
- Registration Number
- NCT01841853
- Lead Sponsor
- Göteborg University
- Brief Summary
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
- Detailed Description
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.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 131
- Foreign-born from Finland or any of five countries in the Western Balkans (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia)
- 70 years of age or older
- Living in Angered, Gothenburg
- Living in their ordinary housing
- Not dependent on informal or formal help in daily activities
- Impaired cognition, Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) below 80% of administered items
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Senior meetings Senior meetings 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.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Change of Sense of Coherence (KASAM) change from basline at 6 months and 1 year KASAM (by Antonovsky)
Change of Activities of Daily Life (ADL) change from baseline at 6 months and 1 year The ADL-staircase
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Change of Gait speed basline, 6 months, and 1 year Four-meter walking test
Change of Weight loss basline, 6 months, and 1 year The Göteborg Quality of Life Instrument
Change of Fear of falls baseline, 6 months, 1 year FES-I
Change of Balance basline, 6 months, and 1 year The balance scale
Change of Falls basline, 6 months, and 1 year Questionnaire
Change of Fatigue baseline, 6 months, and 1 year The Mob-T scale
Change of Grip strength baseline, 6 months, and 1 year North Coast-dynamometer
Change of Cognition basline, 6 months, and 1 year Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE)
Change of Symptoms Basline, 6 months, and 1 year The Göteborg Quality of Life Instrument
Health-care consumption Baseline, 6 months, and 1 year Register data
Change of Physical activity basline, 6 months, and 1 year Questionnaire and Physical and domestic activity scale
Change of Illness Baline, 6 months, and 1 year CIRS-G
Change of Change of Depression Baseline, 6 months, and 1 year GDS 20
Change of Visual impairment basline, 6 months, and 1 year KM-visual acuity chart
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Synneve Dahlin-Ivanoff
🇸🇪Gothenburg, Sweden