RCT of Health-promoting Intervention for Older Foreign-born Adults

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Health Behavior

• 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.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2012-08
• Study First Submitted: 2013-04-10
• Study First Submitted QC: 2013-04-24
• Study First Posted: 2013-04-29
• Primary Completion: 2016-01
• Study Completion: 2016-01
• Status Verified: 2019-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-05-09
• Last Update Posted: 2019-05-13

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 131

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

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

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 Balance	basline, 6 months, and 1 year	The balance scale
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 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
Change of Fear of falls	baseline, 6 months, 1 year	FES-I
Change of Falls	basline, 6 months, and 1 year	Questionnaire

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Synneve Dahlin-Ivanoff; 🇸🇪 Gothenburg, Sweden