Livslots Angered - A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Community-based Health-promoting and Disease-preventive Program for Older Foreign Born Adults
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- Göteborg University
- Enrollment
- 131
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Change of Sense of Coherence (KASAM)
Overview
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.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Prevention
- Masking
- Double (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 70 Years to — (Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria
- •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
Exclusion Criteria
- •Impaired cognition, Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) below 80% of administered items
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Change of Sense of Coherence (KASAM)
Time Frame: change from basline at 6 months and 1 year
KASAM (by Antonovsky)
Change of Activities of Daily Life (ADL)
Time Frame: change from baseline at 6 months and 1 year
The ADL-staircase
Secondary Outcomes
- Change of Fear of falls(baseline, 6 months, 1 year)
- Health-care consumption(Baseline, 6 months, and 1 year)
- Change of Balance(basline, 6 months, and 1 year)
- Change of Gait speed(basline, 6 months, and 1 year)
- Change of Weight loss(basline, 6 months, and 1 year)
- Change of Falls(basline, 6 months, and 1 year)
- Change of Fatigue(baseline, 6 months, and 1 year)
- Change of Grip strength(baseline, 6 months, and 1 year)
- Change of Cognition(basline, 6 months, and 1 year)
- Change of Symptoms(Basline, 6 months, and 1 year)
- Change of Physical activity(basline, 6 months, and 1 year)
- Change of Illness(Baline, 6 months, and 1 year)
- Change of Change of Depression(Baseline, 6 months, and 1 year)
- Change of Visual impairment(basline, 6 months, and 1 year)