ACTRN12615000715572
Terminated
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Volunteer-peer telephone support for older patients to improve quality of life after discharge from the emergency department - a feasibility study.
Overview
- Phase
- 未知
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- symptoms of depression
- Sponsor
- Monash University
- Enrollment
- 50
- Status
- Terminated
- Last Updated
- 6 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
No summary available.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Community\-dwelling men and women, aged 70 years or more, who attend the Emergency Department (ED), and screen positive for symptoms of social isolation, depression and/or loneliness, with the Social Isolation Index, Geriatric Depression Scale–5 items (GDS\-5\) and/or UCLA 3\-item Loneliness Scale
Exclusion Criteria
- •Patients triaged in ED as category 1 or 2 level of urgency, or requiring surgery; living in nursing care homes; receiving end\-of life care or likely to be approaching end\-of\-life within 12 months using the Supportive Care and Palliative Care Indicators Tool (SPICT) criteria; with moderate to severe cognitive impairment: Montreal Cognitive Assessment \<18 (MoCA); with a confirmed diagnosis of dementia or severe mental illness such as schizophrenia or psychosis; or an inability or unwillingness to communicate by telephone
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Not specified
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