Preventive Home Visits for Healthy Pensioners- a Randomized Controlled Trial

NCT00250003 | Completed Phase 1

• 1 other identifier: UmU2001:39
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: N/A
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief 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.

Conditions

Prevention; House Calls

Keywords

Elderly; Preventive home visits

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• use of health care facilities during two years 2000-2001

• all cause mortality during two years 2000 - 2001

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• use of health care facilities 2002-2004

• all cause mortality during 2002-2004

Interventions

Preventive home visits BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 75 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• older than 75 year
• living in their own home
• living in Nordmaling, Sweeden

You may not qualify if:

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

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Umeå University: lead
• Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, Sweden: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Umeå University, Epidemiology and Public Health

Umeå, Västerbotten County, 914 05, Sweden

Location

Study Officials

• Lars Dahlgren, professor

  Epeidemiology and Public Health, Umeå University

  STUDY CHAIR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: phase 1
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: November 4, 2005
• First Posted: November 7, 2005
• Study Start: February 1, 2000
• Study Completion: December 1, 2001
• Last Updated: November 23, 2005

Record last verified: 2005-09

Locations

SE (1)