Preventive Home Visits for Healthy Pensioners- a Randomized Controlled Trial

Prevention Clinical Trial

Official title:

Preventive Home Visits for Healthy Pensioners- a Randomized Controlled Trial in Nordmaling

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00250003
• Other study ID #: UmU2001:39
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 1
• First received: November 4, 2005
• Last updated: November 22, 2005
• Start date: February 2000
• Est. completion date: December 2001

Study information

• Verified date: September 2005
• Source: Umeå University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Sweden: Regional Ethical Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

To investigate whether preventive home visits for healthy persons 75+, made by professional health workers, can change the pattern of care utilization and if the quality of life can improve. The hypothesis is that care utilisation will reduce, mortality decrease and quality of life improve.

Description:

To investigate whether preventive home visits for healthy pensioners aged 75 years and over , can change the pattern of care utilization and if the quality of life can improve. To investigate if the results will last after the intervention has come to an end.

The concept of care utilization can in this trial be clarified as:

• use of primary health care

• use of elderly care including elderly houses

• mortality

• use of hospital care

The concept of quality of life will in this trial be measured with a number of self judgements.

The trial is performed as a randomized controlled trial in a small rural community in the north of Sweden. The staff is professional health workers and the visits is performed in the pensioners own homes.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 0
• Est. completion date: December 2001
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 75 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• older than 75 year

• living in their own home

• living in Nordmaling, Sweeden

Exclusion Criteria:

• any need of elderly care, long term care or frequent health care

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Prevention

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• House Calls
• Prevention

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Preventive home visits

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Sweden	Umeå University, Epidemiology and Public Health	Umeå	Västerbotten

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Umeå University	Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, Sweden

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Sweden, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	use of health care facilities during two years 2000-2001
Primary	all cause mortality during two years 2000 - 2001
Secondary	use of health care facilities 2002-2004
Secondary	all cause mortality during 2002-2004