Geriatric Syndrome in Nursing Home Residents

Disability Physical Clinical Trial

Official title:

Predictors of the Disability in Nursing Home Residents: a Descriptive Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06082908
• Other study ID #: Nursing home
• Status: Completed
• Start date: June 1, 2022
• Est. completion date: April 25, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: October 2023
• Source: Giresun University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Disability in daily living activities (ADL) is a typical issue among nursing care residents. The goal of this study was to look at the geriatric syndromes that cause incapacity in nursing home residents.

Description:

More often than not, people who live in nursing homes can't move out. One of the main reasons they leave their own home is to lose their freedom. Nursing homes also have a lot of people with geriatric diseases like cognitive impairment, balance problems, urinary incontinence, and disability. But it's not known what role geriatric syndromes play in ADL impairment. To come up with good ways to treat geriatric syndromes, which are the main causes of ADL disability in nursing home patients, we need to know more about them. So, the point of this study was to look into geriatric syndromes that are linked to disability and find out what causes disability in nursing home patients.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 124
• Est. completion date: April 25, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: December 30, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 65 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• age over 65
• staying in a nursing home for at least 12 months
• consent to participate in the study were the inclusion criteria.

Exclusion Criteria:

• people who were mentally unable to answer questions,
• people who were hospitalized
• people who had severe hearing or vision problems that made it hard to communicate
• people who took benzodiazepines or psychotropic drugs that made it hard to walk or balance
• people who had fractures or endoprostheses in any part of their bodies.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Disability Physical

Intervention

Diagnostic Test:
• Diagnostic test
Subjective and objective measurement will be performed in older adults.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Turkey	Giresun University	Giresun

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Giresun University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Turkey, 

References & Publications (2)

Jenkins KR, Fultz NH. Functional impairment as a risk factor for urinary incontinence among older Americans. Neurourol Urodyn. 2005;24(1):51-5. doi: 10.1002/nau.20089. — View Citation

Vermeulen J, Neyens JC, van Rossum E, Spreeuwenberg MD, de Witte LP. Predicting ADL disability in community-dwelling elderly people using physical frailty indicators: a systematic review. BMC Geriatr. 2011 Jul 1;11:33. doi: 10.1186/1471-2318-11-33. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	frailty	FRAIL includes five items that evaluate ambulation, weight loss, fatigue, diseases, and resistance.; Each item receives a value of 0 or 1, for a total score ranging from 0 (best) to 5 (worst). A score of 3 shows frailty, a score of 1-2 indicates prefrailty, and a score of 0 indicates robustness.	5 minute
Primary	disability	The Barthel Index (BI) was used to determine the level of disability in ADL. The indicator has a maximum total score of 100, indicating that the individual is entirely autonomous in all physical functions. The lowest possible score is 0; this indicates that the individual is entirely dependent.	5 minute
Secondary	sarcopenia	The SARC-F questionnaire was used to assess the risk of sarcopenia. The indicator has a maximum total score of 100, indicating that the individual is entirely autonomous in all physical functions. The lowest possible score is 0; this indicates that the individual is entirely dependent.	5 minute