Screening Versus Routine Practice in Detection of Atrial Fibrillation in the Elderly Population of Lieto
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 入组人数
- 200
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- The willingness to the pulse palpation and competence independently learn to feel own pulse.
研究概览
简要总结
The aim of this study is to evaluate the feasibility of patient education on feeling the own pulse irregularity in the elderly population of Lieto.
Prevalence of atrial fibrillation (AF) rises with age. Subjects have often symptoms like palpitation and discomfort but especially in elderly population there's significant quantity of persons who don't feel any symptoms and fail to seek for medical care for stroke prevention.
The main objectives in this study are to find out the prevalence of AF in the elderly population of Lieto, to assess the feasibility and reability of patient education on feeling one's pulse irregularity and the affect to the quality of life of the participating subjects and monitoring the possible increased burden to the public health care system.
The study contains two office visits with specified learning session and long-term phone-call follow-up.
详细描述
The main objectives in this study are to find out the prevalence of AF in the elderly population of Lieto, to assess the feasibility of patient education on feeling one's pulse irregularity and the affect to the quality of life of the participating subjects and monitoring the possible increased burden to the public health care system.
The study contains two office visits with specified learning session and long-term phone-call follow-up. A specially trained nurse will initially give a 10 min education on pulse palpation to each person and evaluate their capacity to learn pulse palpation. During followup visits the compliance of the patient and possible new arrhythmias plus quality of life issues are recorded and their ability of pulse palpation is evaluated by artificial hand where various kinds of pulses are transmitted.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Na
- 干预模型
- Single Group
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 75 Years 至 —（Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •patient aged 75 or over
- •inhabitant of Lieto
- •willing to participate
排除标准
- •chronic atrial fibrillation
- •ongoing anticoagulant treatment
- •permanent institutional care
研究组 & 干预措施
pulse palpation education
The subject is educated to pulse palpation by registered cardiac nurse. The education time is limited to 10 minutes and done according preplanned education model
干预措施: Subject education to pulse palpation (Other)
结局指标
主要结局
The willingness to the pulse palpation and competence independently learn to feel own pulse.
时间窗: 1 month control visit
Based on learning session evaluated by nurse and objective evaluation of the learned skills by pulse-arm device and patient's pulse diary
次要结局
- Number of patients with new atrial fibrillation detected during the study(At 1 year followup)
研究者
Juhani Airaksinen
Professor
University of Turku