The Elderly Clinical Trial
Official title:
The Effect of an Audible Alarm on the Fluid Consumption of The Elderly Living in a Nursing Home: A Randomized, Controlled Trial
Research shows that older people need reminders to increase fluid consumption. The aim of the
research was to investigate the effect of an audible alarm on the fluid consumption of old
people living in a nursing home. The research was conducted as a single-blind, randomized
controlled, prospective experimental study on the pre-test post-test model.
The study was performed between 27 July 2017 and 1 February 2018 at a nursing home in the
west of Turkey. Out of 979 in nursing home who conformed to the inclusion criteria of the
study, 100 (intervention group (n: 50) and control group (n: 50) were voluntarily included in
the sample. The intervention group was given education and a wristwatch which gave an audible
alarm to remind them to drink liquid, the control group was given only education. The old
people in both groups were monitored before the education, after the education, after the
audible alarm and 15 days after the audible alarm every three days on total of 12 days. The
amount of liquid that the elderly should drink daily was determined according to Gaspar
formula.
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