ModuLAAr - A Module Based and Scalable System for Silver-ager in Austria

Quality of Life Clinical Trial

— ModuLAAr  

Official title:

Evaluation of ModuLAAr - a Module Based and Scalable System for Silver-ager Located in Assisted Living Homes in Austria

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02130102
• Other study ID #: FFG Registration Nr. 835863
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: April 30, 2014
• Last updated: December 30, 2015
• Start date: June 2013
• Est. completion date: December 2015

Study information

• Verified date: December 2015
• Source: AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Austria: Ethikkommission
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

In this research project a module based Ambient Assisted Living solution will be provided to elderly living in assisted living homes. Those products and services seek to impact quality of life of the elderly and have positive effects on their environment.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 38
• Est. completion date: December 2015
• Est. primary completion date: December 2015
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 60 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• 60 years and older

• informed consent

• resident of an assisted living home of the Samariterbund Burgenland Rettung und Soziale Dienste GmbH

Exclusion Criteria:

• relevant health threatening event or death

• mini mental state score <17

Study Design

Observational Model: Case-Only, Time Perspective: Prospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Quality of Life

Intervention

Device:
• The ModuLAAr Ambient Assisted Living System
The system consists of the following modules which will be provided to the volunteers according to their needs: tablet computer (digital photo album, video telephone, meal ordering system, reminder system), bodyweight scale, blood pressure meter, emergency call system, mobile phone (documentation of personal health-related data), bathroom surveillance system, blood glucose meter, house automation technologies/smart home technologies

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Austria	AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH	Wiener Neustadt	Lower Austria

Sponsors (5)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH	Austrian Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT), Austrian Research Promotion Agency, Samariterbund Burgenland Rettung und Soziale Dienste GmbH, University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Austria, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Changes of quality of life and subjective health	multidimensional outcome assessment of quality of life: Quality of life is assessed by the questionnaires of the World Health Organization (WHOQOL-BREF and WHOQOL-OLD) as well as with semi-structured qualitative interviews. Subjective health is assessed by EQ-5D VAS of the Euroqol-Organization.	4 and 1 months before intervention. 1, 4 and 12 months after intervention	No
Secondary	Changes in technology acceptance and usability	qualitative evaluation according to the technology acceptance model (TAM) and usability questionnaire	1, 12 and 18 months after intervention	No
Secondary	Impact and changes on socio-economic parameters	user-questionnaire with socio-economic and socio-demographic parameters: (gender, income, housing conditions, level of education, level of social support, working experience, medicine intake, chronic diseases, frequency of falls, health threatening events).; Semi-structured qualitative interviews using the delphi method will be conducted.	4 months before intervention. 4 and 12 months after intervention	No

External Links

•   Website of the ModuLAAr project