Effect of Involving Community-dwelling Older Adults in Activities in Relation to Meals
- Conditions
- Frail Older Adults
- Interventions
- Behavioral: A rehabilitation process involving collaborative goal setting with a case manager about managing own food and meals
- Registration Number
- NCT03289598
- Lead Sponsor
- The Danish Dietetic Association
- Brief Summary
Community-dwelling older adults receiving support at home such as meals-on-wheels may lose the ability to preserve social, cognitive, and functional abilities, when becoming accustomed to and dependent of community aged care. When still able to cook older adults often hold some control over the foods that are prepared and which they eat, and which helps to foster identity. The purpose of this study is to evaluate community-dwelling older adults being involved in activities in relation to meals in a rehabilitation program.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 130
- Community dwelling older people (64+ years)
- Able to eat and drink
- Receive meals-on-wheels from the municipality at the time of recruitment
- Live in the city of Odense
- Moderate-severe dementia as judged by the home -care staff
- Being deaf and/or not understand the language of Danish.
- Not being able to sign the informed consent
- Receiving (or likely to receive in the next 6 months) enteral tube feeding or parenteral nutrition;
- Participating in other project in the municipality about nutritional support in the form of dietetic advice;
- Or on an end-of-life care pathway
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Interventionsgroup A rehabilitation process involving collaborative goal setting with a case manager about managing own food and meals -
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Quality of life Up to 6 months EuroQol (EQ-5D) is a questionnaire with five questions to be answered in three categories of movement, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort and anxiety/depression.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 30 seconds chair-stand Up to 6 months 30 seconds chair-stand will be used to measure muscle strength. Participants are asked to fold their arms across their chest and to stand up and sit down on a chair without pushing off with arms, as many times as possible for 30 seconds.
Weight Up to 6 months Weight in kilograms
Height Up to 6 months Height in meter and centimetre
Self-efficacy Up to 6 months Self-efficacy will be measured by The General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSE).The GSE is a 10-item psychometric scale will be used to assess optimistic self-beliefs to cope with a variety of difficult demands in life.
Loneliness Up to 6 months Loneliness will be measured by the UCLA Loneliness Scale. The scale consists of 20 items (11 positive and 9 negative), describing subjective feelings of loneliness.
Mental well-being Up to 6 months Mental well-being will be measured by the short Warwich-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (SWEMWBS) - Danish version 2014. SWEMWBS is a 7-item scale; each answered on a 1 to 5 Likert scale, with most items representing aspects of psychological and eudemonic well-being, and few covering hedonic well-being or affect.
Satisfaction with food-related life Up to 6 months The satisfaction with food-related life will be measured by the Satisfaction with Food-related Life (SWFL) scale.The SWFL, consists of 5 items grouped into a single dimension (e.g. Food 1: Food and meals are positive elements; Food 2: I am generally pleased with my food; Food 3: My life in relation to food and meals is close to ideal; Food 4: With regards to food, the conditions of my life are excellent; Food 5: Food and meals give me satisfaction in daily life.). In each scale, the respondents must indicate their degree of agreement with these statements using a 6-level Likert scale (1 = disagree completely, 6 = agree completely).
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
The Danish Dietetic Association
🇩🇰Copenhagen, Denmark