The Effect of Audible Alarm on the Fluid Consumption of the Elderly

NCT ID: NCT04242745

Last Updated: 2020-01-27

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 100 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2017-07-27
• Study Completion Date: 2019-12-20

Brief Summary

Research shows that older people need reminders to increase fluid consumption. The aim of the research was to investigate the effect of an audible alarm on the fluid consumption of old people living in a nursing home. The research was conducted as a single-blind, randomized controlled, prospective experimental study on the pre-test post-test model.

The study was performed between 27 July 2017 and 1 February 2018 at a nursing home in the west of Turkey. Out of 979 in nursing home who conformed to the inclusion criteria of the study, 100 (intervention group (n: 50) and control group (n: 50) were voluntarily included in the sample. The intervention group was given education and a wristwatch which gave an audible alarm to remind them to drink liquid, the control group was given only education. The old people in both groups were monitored before the education, after the education, after the audible alarm and 15 days after the audible alarm every three days on total of 12 days. The amount of liquid that the elderly should drink daily was determined according to Gaspar formula.

Conditions

The Elderly

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: CROSSOVER
• Primary Study Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Intervention group

Procedure/Surgery:The intervention group was given education and a wristwatch which gave an audible alarm to remind them to drink liquid.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Intervention group

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The elderly in this group were trained using the "For Your Health For Fluid" training booklet and a projection device, and after training, all individuals were given a training booklet. The training was carried out individually in a room reserved for training and took an average of 25-30 minutes.

A Beyid wristwatch was used. This spoke the time in Turkish, every hour on the hour. In this way, the old people were reminded to drink a glass of liquid each hour. The watch had an alarm capability, and could be taken on to sleep mode at night in order not to wake the old people.

Control group

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The elderly in this group were trained using the "For Your Health For Fluid" training booklet and a projection device, and after training, all individuals were given a training booklet. The training was carried out individually in a room reserved for training and took an average of 25-30 minutes.

Control group

The control group was given only education.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Intervention group

The elderly in this group were trained using the "For Your Health For Fluid" training booklet and a projection device, and after training, all individuals were given a training booklet. The training was carried out individually in a room reserved for training and took an average of 25-30 minutes.

A Beyid wristwatch was used. This spoke the time in Turkish, every hour on the hour. In this way, the old people were reminded to drink a glass of liquid each hour. The watch had an alarm capability, and could be taken on to sleep mode at night in order not to wake the old people.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Control group

The elderly in this group were trained using the "For Your Health For Fluid" training booklet and a projection device, and after training, all individuals were given a training booklet. The training was carried out individually in a room reserved for training and took an average of 25-30 minutes.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Criteria for inclusion in the study were being aged 65 or over, not having a fluid deficiency and living in nursing home.

Exclusion Criteria

• Being visually or aurally impaired,
• Being bedridden,
• Not being able to take liquids orally, Having health problems such as fever,
• Vomiting, diarrhea or kidney disease causing fluid loss,
• Taking diuretic medication and using more than more than five doses per day,
• Having a diagnosis of a disease such as kidney failure or cardiac insufficiency requiring restriction of fluids, or having a diagnosis of neurological or psychiatric dysfunction, or dementia or Alzheimer's.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 65 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Izmir Katip Celebi University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Perihan ÇETİN

Assistant Professor, PhD,

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Perihan ÇETİN, Assistant Professor, PhD

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Izmir Katip Celebi University

İsmet EŞER, Professor

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Ege University

Locations

İzmir Katip Çelebi University

Izmir, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Other Identifiers

17-7.1/36; 27.07.2017

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id