Preventive Home Visits for Healthy Pensioners- a Randomized Controlled Trial

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

PHASE1

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2000-02-29

Study Completion Date

2001-12-31

Brief Summary

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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.

Detailed Description

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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.

Conditions

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Prevention House Calls

Keywords

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Elderly Preventive home visits

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Interventions

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Preventive home visits

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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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

Minimum Eligible Age

75 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Principal Investigators

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Lars Dahlgren, professor

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Epeidemiology and Public Health, Umeå University

Locations

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Umeå University, Epidemiology and Public Health

Umeå, Västerbotten County, Sweden

Site Status

Countries

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Sweden

Other Identifiers

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UmU2001:39

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id