The Effectiveness of Reablement in Home Dwelling Adults

NCT ID: NCT02273934

Last Updated: 2015-11-18

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

500 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2014-04-30

Study Completion Date

2015-12-31

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this study is to determine whether a special kind of rehabilitation offered to home-dwelling adults is effective with regards to functional ability, health-related quality of life, coping, mental health and municipal costs.

Detailed Description

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Health promotion and prevention of functional decline among home dwelling adults and immediate onset of rehabilitation, can improve function, and reduce or delay need for home-based assistance and institution placement. In the coming years there will be a significant increase in number of persons in Norway that need interventions aiming at coping with everyday activities. Therefore there is a call for new models for early intervention and rehabilitation in order to give service to a larger amount of home living people. Reablement is a new and promising rehabilitation model which many Norwegian municipalities are implementing in order to meet current and future needs for municipal home-based services. However, very little research has been performed regarding the effectiveness of this intervention. This study aims at assessing the effectiveness of reablement in terms of daily functioning, health-related quality of life, coping, mental health and economic municipal costs.

The study will be conducted in 44 municipalities in Norway. It is a quasi-experimental intervention trial, recruiting home-dwelling adults with an initial functional decline in daily activities. The intervention is intensive, multidisciplinary, home-based rehabilitation given by home-trainers, under supervision from an occupational therapist, nurse or a physiotherapist. The control intervention is standard home-based treatment and care.

A total of approximately 750 participants will be recruited, including approximately 100 participants the control group. The participants will be assessed at baseline, and at 10 weeks ,6-, and 12 months follow-up. Primary outcomes will be participation, activity, and municipal expenditures. Costs are generated by the working hours of the different professions. Hence, there will be a weekly registration of the working hours different health care professions spend in the private homes of the participants.

Data analyses will be performed according to intention to treat. Univariate analysis of covariance will be used to investigate differences between the groups from baseline to the end of intervention. The working hour data is panel data and will be analyzed accordingly; a random or a mixed effect regression model will be employed. Also, descriptive statistics and simpler tests will be carried out.

Conditions

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Physical Disability

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Reablement

Reablement is an intensive, multidisciplinary, client-centered, home-based type of rehabilitation, where ordinary activities of daily living are used for rehabilitative purposes. It is a rehabilitation alternative that may be offered to adults, and there is no lower age limit. An occupational therapist and physical therapist, or nurse, constitutes the key personal, while home helpers, assistants and others with lower education, are the ones who work rehabilitative with the person on a daily basis focusing on self-help.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Reablement

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

The intervention deals with improving function in daily activities the person defines as important in the areas of self-care, productivity and leisure.

Standard treatment

This arm consists of the standard treatment home-dwelling elderly persons receive when applying for home-based help. Some elderly may receive home-based nursing or home help services assisting them in daily activities, while others may receive occupational therapy or physical therapy measures for rehabilitative purposes.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Standard treatment

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

The control intervention is standard home-based treatment/care in Norway.

Interventions

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Reablement

The intervention deals with improving function in daily activities the person defines as important in the areas of self-care, productivity and leisure.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Standard treatment

The control intervention is standard home-based treatment/care in Norway.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

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Hverdagsrehabilitering Hemrehabilitering Re-ablement Restorative care Usual care Treatment as usual

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Home-dwelling person
* Applicant of home-based services
* Above 18 years old
* Functional decline in at least one activity
* Able to understand written and oral Norwegian

Exclusion Criteria

* Cognitive disability
* Terminal ill
* Being assessed as needing nursing home placement
* Being assessed as needing institution-based rehabilitation
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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University of Oslo

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Bergen

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Frode F. Jacobsen

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Frode F. Jacobsen

Professor

Responsibility Role SPONSOR_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Frode Jacobsen, PhD

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Bergen University College

Locations

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Bergen University College

Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Site Status

Countries

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Norway

References

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Langeland E, Tuntland H, Folkestad B, Forland O, Jacobsen FF, Kjeken I. A multicenter investigation of reablement in Norway: a clinical controlled trial. BMC Geriatr. 2019 Jan 30;19(1):29. doi: 10.1186/s12877-019-1038-x.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 30700255 (View on PubMed)

Langeland E, Tuntland H, Forland O, Aas E, Folkestad B, Jacobsen FF, Kjeken I. Study protocol for a multicenter investigation of reablement in Norway. BMC Geriatr. 2015 Sep 15;15:111. doi: 10.1186/s12877-015-0108-y.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 26374305 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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EL-123-REHAB

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id