Orthostatic Hypotension in Elderly Nursing Home Residents

Completed

• Conditions: Orthostatic Hypotension
• Interventions: Other: No intervention

• Registration Number: NCT01362751
• Lead Sponsor: Medical Research Foundation, The Netherlands

Brief Summary

In this study the investigators aimed

1. to investigate the prevalence of orthostatic hypotension in elderly nursing home residents.

2. to investigate whether the presence of orthostatic hypotension influences the chance of successful rehabilitation.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2010-10
• Study First Submitted: 2010-10-07
• Study First Submitted QC: 2011-05-27
• Study First Posted: 2011-05-30
• Primary Completion: 2012-03
• Study Completion: 2012-03
• Status Verified: 2012-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2012-09-02
• Last Update Posted: 2012-09-05

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 290

Inclusion Criteria

• nursing home resident

Exclusion Criteria

• patients at the palliative department
• life expectancy < 4 weeks
• patients only temporarily admitted to the nursing home

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Nursing home residents	No intervention	In this study, patients from both the somatic and the psychogeriatric department are included. For the primary endpoint 'successful rehabilitation' only the patients from the somatic departments are included.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Orthostatic hypotension	Baseline	Orthostatic hypotension is defined by consensus as a fall in blood pressure of at least 20 mmHg systolic or 10 mmHg diastolic within 3 minutes in the upright position
Successful rehabilitation	After 5 years	Successful rehabilitation is defined as whether the patient is able to return to his/her home or another location (but not a nursing home) after discharge from the nursing home. Unsuccessful rehabilitations implies that the patients becomes a long-stay nursing home resident.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
All-cause and Cardiovascular mortality	Date of death
Quality of life	Measured at baseline and after 1 year	Quality of life is measured using the RAND-36 questionnaire.
Fall incidents	After 5 years

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Nursing home TriviumMeulenbeltZorg, location Borsthuis; 🇳🇱 Hengelo, Netherlands