Trial Outcomes & Findings for Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment for Frail Older People (NCT NCT02773914)

NCT ID: NCT02773914

Last Updated: 2024-11-18

Results Overview

Changes in number of person dependent in one or more daily activity from baseline to follow-up. Dependence in daily activities was measured using the ADL-staircase assessment by combining both interviews and observations. It includes dependence in nine activities: cleaning, shopping, transportation, cooking, bathing, dressing, going to the toilet, transferring and feeding. Dependence was defined as a state in which another person is involved in the activity by giving personal or directive assistance. The sum of dependence in the nine activities of daily living is calculated, range 0-9, with a clinically significant change of ≥1 unit between baseline and follow-up. At baseline, personal ADL (PADL: bathing, dressing, going to the toilet, transferring and feeding) was inquired for both actual PADL status during the hospital stay and retrospectively for PADL before onset of the acute illness leading to the hospital admission.

Recruitment status

COMPLETED

Study phase

NA

Target enrollment

155 participants

Primary outcome timeframe

1 year

Results posted on

2024-11-18

Participant Flow

Participant milestones

Participant milestones
Measure
CGA Intervention
The CGA intervention will include multidisciplinary teams consisting of physician, nurse (RN), physiotherapist (PT), occupational therapist (OT) and social worker (SW). The team will work according to CGA, and have the primary and continuing responsibility for planning of hospital care and discharge. CGA will include assessment of socio-demographic background, social network, health and medical history, medications, functional status, cognitive status, nutritional status, somatic status and psychosocial status including depression, as well as treatment and planning for discharge and follow-up. Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment: Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment intervention
Control Group
The control group receives usual hospital care, that is care given at an ordinary medical hospital ward, without the specialized multi-disciplinary team approach and CGA.
Overall Study
STARTED
78
77
Overall Study
COMPLETED
38
40
Overall Study
NOT COMPLETED
40
37

Reasons for withdrawal

Withdrawal data not reported

Baseline Characteristics

Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment for Frail Older People

Baseline characteristics by cohort

Baseline characteristics by cohort
Measure
CGA Intervention
n=78 Participants
The CGA intervention will include multidisciplinary teams consisting of physician, nurse (RN), physiotherapist (PT), occupational therapist (OT) and social worker (SW). The team will work according to CGA, and have the primary and continuing responsibility for planning of hospital care and discharge. CGA will include assessment of socio-demographic background, social network, health and medical history, medications, functional status, cognitive status, nutritional status, somatic status and psychosocial status including depression, as well as treatment and planning for discharge and follow-up. Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment: Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment intervention
Control Group
n=77 Participants
The control group receives usual hospital care, that is care given at an ordinary medical hospital ward, without the specialized multi-disciplinary team approach and CGA.
Total
n=155 Participants
Total of all reporting groups
Age, Categorical
<=18 years
0 Participants
n=5 Participants
0 Participants
n=7 Participants
0 Participants
n=5 Participants
Age, Categorical
Between 18 and 65 years
0 Participants
n=5 Participants
0 Participants
n=7 Participants
0 Participants
n=5 Participants
Age, Categorical
>=65 years
78 Participants
n=5 Participants
77 Participants
n=7 Participants
155 Participants
n=5 Participants
Sex: Female, Male
Female
47 Participants
n=5 Participants
43 Participants
n=7 Participants
90 Participants
n=5 Participants
Sex: Female, Male
Male
31 Participants
n=5 Participants
34 Participants
n=7 Participants
65 Participants
n=5 Participants
Race/Ethnicity, Customized
78 Participants
n=5 Participants
77 Participants
n=7 Participants
155 Participants
n=5 Participants

PRIMARY outcome

Timeframe: 1 year

Changes in number of person dependent in one or more daily activity from baseline to follow-up. Dependence in daily activities was measured using the ADL-staircase assessment by combining both interviews and observations. It includes dependence in nine activities: cleaning, shopping, transportation, cooking, bathing, dressing, going to the toilet, transferring and feeding. Dependence was defined as a state in which another person is involved in the activity by giving personal or directive assistance. The sum of dependence in the nine activities of daily living is calculated, range 0-9, with a clinically significant change of ≥1 unit between baseline and follow-up. At baseline, personal ADL (PADL: bathing, dressing, going to the toilet, transferring and feeding) was inquired for both actual PADL status during the hospital stay and retrospectively for PADL before onset of the acute illness leading to the hospital admission.

Outcome measures

Outcome measures
Measure
CGA Intervention
n=78 Participants
The CGA intervention will include multidisciplinary teams consisting of physician, nurse (RN), physiotherapist (PT), occupational therapist (OT) and social worker (SW). The team will work according to CGA, and have the primary and continuing responsibility for planning of hospital care and discharge. CGA will include assessment of socio-demographic background, social network, health and medical history, medications, functional status, cognitive status, nutritional status, somatic status and psychosocial status including depression, as well as treatment and planning for discharge and follow-up. Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment: Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment intervention
Control Group
n=77 Participants
The control group receives usual hospital care, that is care given at an ordinary medical hospital ward, without the specialized multi-disciplinary team approach and CGA.
Dependence in Activities of Daily Living
78 Participants
77 Participants

SECONDARY outcome

Timeframe: 1 year

Changes in number of person with good self-rated health from baseline to follow-up. Self-rated health was measured by the question: "In general, would you say your health is", with the response alternatives: excellent, very good, good, fair, and poor. Clinically significant difference was defined as ≥1 step in the response alternatives between baseline and follow-up.

Outcome measures

Outcome data not reported

SECONDARY outcome

Timeframe: 1 month follow-up

Satisfaction of care scored on a five answer statements using a likert-scale. Satisfaction with quality of care was measured by the participant's agreement with six statements with a person-centred approach: "I feel that the care given during the hospital stay meets my needs", "I feel that the care planning meeting before discharge was valuable", "I was able to take part in the discussion of my needs in the care planning meeting", "I feel that the actions planned equal my needs", "I feel that the actions delivered equal my needs" and "I am satisfied with the hospital care". The response alternatives were agree completely, agree partly, neither agree nor disagree, disagree, and disagree completely. An answer of agree completely or agree partly were considered as satisfied. These questions were only measured once (at 1 month follow-up) and were used as the difference between intervention and control groups in the proportion of participants being satisfied for each question at follow-up

Outcome measures

Outcome data not reported

SECONDARY outcome

Timeframe: 1 year

Life satisfaction was measured using the Fugl-Meyer-Lisat-11 Questionnaire which includes 11 items concerning satisfaction with: life as a whole, work, financial situation, leisure, friends and acquaintances, sexual life, functional capacity, family life, partner relationship, physical health and psychological health. Response alternatives included: very dissatisfied, dissatisfied, rather dissatisfied, rather satisfied, satisfied and very satisfied. In the analysis, the responses to each question were dichotomised into satisfied (very satisfied and satisfied) or not satisfied (rather satisfied, rather dissatisfied, dissatisfied and very dissatisfied) as was done in the validation of the questionnaire. The sum of items for which the respondent reported being satisfied were calculated, range 0-11, with a clinically significant change of ≥1 between baseline and follow-up.

Outcome measures

Outcome data not reported

Adverse Events

CGA Intervention

Serious events: 0 serious events
Other events: 0 other events
Deaths: 0 deaths

Control Group

Serious events: 0 serious events
Other events: 0 other events
Deaths: 0 deaths

Serious adverse events

Adverse event data not reported

Other adverse events

Adverse event data not reported

Additional Information

Isabelle Andersson Hammar

Göteborg University

Phone: +4631 786 5719

Results disclosure agreements

  • Principal investigator is a sponsor employee
  • Publication restrictions are in place