Reducing Disability Via a Bundled Bio-Behavioral-Environmental Approach

Quality of Life Clinical Trial

— CAPABLE  

Official title:

Reducing Disability Via a Bundled Bio-Behavioral-Environmental Approach

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01576133
• Other study ID #: NA_00031539
• Secondary ID: R01AG040100
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: April 2012
• Est. completion date: May 2017

Study information

• Verified date: June 2018
• Source: Johns Hopkins University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of the study is to determine whether a combination of occupational therapy visits, nursing visits, and handyman repair are effective in helping low income older adults avoid costly health care services

Description:

We will recruit low-income age 65 or older

-principally African-American, adults from the Baltimore Department of Housing Energy Assistance Program.

-We will interview them at home and randomize participants to either the treatment (CAPABLE intervention) or control (attention-control) group. Participants in the treatment group will receive up to 10 in-home sessions -- 6 visits with an occupational therapist and 4 visits from a nurse - and $1200 in safety and modification services from a licensed handyman. Each treatment participant will receive each intervention component but interventionists will systematically tailor content to the participants' risk profile and goals based on protocols.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 300
• Est. completion date: May 2017
• Est. primary completion date: April 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 65 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• at least 65 years old

• cognitively intact

• difficulty with at least one activity of daily living or two instrumental activities of daily living

• less than 175% of the Federal Poverty level

• be able to stand with or without assistance

• agree to study participation

Exclusion Criteria:

• hospitalized more than three times in the last year

• receiving in home rehabilitation

• have a terminal diagnosis with less than one year life expectancy

• plan to move in less than one year

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Quality of Life

Intervention

Behavioral:
• CAPABLE
Occupational therapy visits plus nursing visits plus handyman repair
• Attention visits
Participants in the attention control arm will receive 10 one hour visits over the course of 16 weeks. These visits will consist of sedentary activities

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing	Baltimore	Maryland

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Johns Hopkins University	National Institute on Aging (NIA)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)		5 months