Educational Guidelines Aimed at Pre-frail Elderly: Intervention Proposal

Geriatrics Clinical Trial

Official title:

Educational Guidelines Aimed at Pre-frail Elderly From a Family Health Unit, Guarulhos/SP - an Intervention Proposal

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04997746
• Other study ID #: 20210724
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Start date: August 2021
• Est. completion date: January 2022

Study information

• Verified date: August 2021
• Source: Leonardo Paroche de Matos
• Contact: Leonardo Matos
• Phone: +551124532168
• Email: leonardoparoche[@]gmail.com
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

INTRODUCTION: aging is the natural process of deterioration of the reserves of biological systems, human beings are inherent to this process. The elderly population in Brazil grows very quickly, this is due to the drop in fertility, mortality and increased life expectancy. OBJECTIVE: to promote the planning of guiding and educational actions based on the qualification of the frailty of the elderly in the Basic Health Unit of the study through the use of the Multidimensional Assessment of the Elderly in Primary Care (AMPI/AB) tool. METHODOLOGY: an experimental, longitudinal, prospective and analytical study aimed at approximately 20 pre-frail elderly people residing in a specific area of a Family Health Unit in the city of Guarulhos/SP. A survey of data referring to the application of AMPI/AB carried out in 2021 and classified as pre-fragile will be carried out, in order to later select them for research. The participant will receive educational guidance on nutrition, use of medications and nursing guidance as identified as needs. Three months after the intervention, AMPI/AB will be applied in order to observe whether the pre-frail elderly remained or changed category after the experimental multidisciplinary educational interventions.

Description:

Experimental, longitudinal, prospective and analytical study aimed at pre-frail elderly people living in a specific area of a Family Health Unit in the city of Guarulhos/SP, developed with the aim of qualifying the health care of the elderly population of the territory of the Basic health Unit in 2021, using the Multidimensional Assessment of the Elderly in Primary Care (MAE/PC questionnaire) as the main data collection instrument, associated with the multidisciplinary educational intervention. Initially, a survey of data referring to MAE/PC carried out in 2021 will be carried out during the routine of care by the authors, in order to identify the elderly who were classified as pre-frail. Data referring to healthy and frail elderly people will be used in the research in a descriptive (quantitative) way. Participants will not be identified, data will be displayed in absolute numbers and frequency.

The educational activities will be carried out through home visits and collection of anthropometric measurements, at which time the Informed Consent Form will be offered to authorize participation in the research. The reference participant and/or caregiver will receive all the necessary information to consciously decide whether or not to participate in the aforementioned research and is free to withdraw at any time, which will not harm any of the parties involved. Participants will also receive educational guidance on nutrition, medication use and nursing guidance as identified as needed.

Three months after the intervention, the MAE/PC questionnaire will be reapplied in order to verify if the participant kept or changed his category after receiving the multidisciplinary recommendations.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 20
• Est. completion date: January 2022
• Est. primary completion date: December 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 60 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Time and space oriented seniors;

• Previously classified as pre-fragile;

• Good physical condition for taking anthropometric measurements;

• Who voluntarily agreed to participate in the research;

Exclusion Criteria:

• Elderly classified as "healthy";

• Unsatisfactory physical condition that makes it impossible to measure anthropometric measurements;

• Elderly with amputated limbs;

• In palliative care;

• Who refuse to voluntarily participate in the research

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Geriatrics
• Health Services for the Aged

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Multiprofessional educational interventions
Preventive educational interventions

Other:
• Measurement of anthropometric measurements
Measurement of height (in meters), weight (in kilograms), knee height, arm circumference and calf circumference (in centimeters)

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Brazil	Guarulhos City Hall	Guarulhos	São Paulo

Sponsors (6)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Leonardo Paroche de Matos	Bianca Prado de Lima Ramos, Daniele Fernanda Mantovani, Jadhy Aquino Antunes, Milla de Castro, Victória Sanches Pereira Gimenez

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Brazil, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Correct use of medications	Adequacy of the correct use of medications with the use of the medication box. subjective outcome	3 months
Primary	Advances in quality of life (subjective)	Offering guidelines on the health of the elderly, providing them with healthier aging and quality of life, covering critical points of the elderly's health and preventing health problems, providing advances in their self-care and giving them more autonomy, solving doubts related to their comorbidities and the aging process, bringing comfort to their anguish, also including the process of death. Subjective outcome	3 months
Primary	Calculation of Body Mass Index	Elderly people are expected to remain within the anthropometric parameters according to their age group, based on the calculation of BMI in kg / m ^ 2 (obtained by combining weight (in kilograms) and height (in meters)	3 months