Preventive Home Visits for Healthy Pensioners- a Randomized Controlled Trial
- Conditions
- PreventionHouse Calls
- Registration Number
- NCT00250003
- Lead Sponsor
- Umeå University
- Brief Summary
To investigate whether preventive home visits for healthy persons 75+, made by professional health workers, can change the pattern of care utilization and if the quality of life can improve. The hypothesis is that care utilisation will reduce, mortality decrease and quality of life improve.
- Detailed Description
To investigate whether preventive home visits for healthy pensioners aged 75 years and over , can change the pattern of care utilization and if the quality of life can improve. To investigate if the results will last after the intervention has come to an end.
The concept of care utilization can in this trial be clarified as:
* use of primary health care
* use of elderly care including elderly houses
* mortality
* use of hospital care
The concept of quality of life will in this trial be measured with a number of self judgements.
The trial is performed as a randomized controlled trial in a small rural community in the north of Sweden. The staff is professional health workers and the visits is performed in the pensioners own homes.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
- older than 75 year
- living in their own home
- living in Nordmaling, Sweeden
- any need of elderly care, long term care or frequent health care
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- SINGLE_GROUP
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method use of health care facilities during two years 2000-2001 all cause mortality during two years 2000 - 2001
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method use of health care facilities 2002-2004 all cause mortality during 2002-2004
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Umeå University, Epidemiology and Public Health
🇸🇪Umeå, Västerbotten, Sweden