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NCT Number: NCT01841853

RCT of Health-promoting Intervention for Older Foreign-born Adults

The overarching aim with this study was to develop, implement and evaluate a health promoting programme for people from Finland or the Western Balkan region, who were 70 years of age or older and independent daily activites (1). The aim of the programme was to prevent or delay dependence in daily activities, health decline, and frailty. The study focused on both evaluation and implementation and the data collection finished in 2016

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Key information

Conditions

Health Behavior Behavior

Age range

70 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Synneve Dahlin-Ivanoff

Gothenburg, 40530, Sweden

About this study

The study has developed tools for collaboration between the target group, staff and researchers, as well as with tools to bridge barriers to health promotion. For example, alternative ways to recruit participants and to collect and analyse data in studies with and for people who are ageing in a migration context.

The findings describe how a person-centred approach could be used to make use of the resources of the target groups, and visualise methods to bridge linguistic barriers. The education material from Older people in the risk zone has also been translated to Bosnian Serbo-Croatian and Finnish.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Foreign-born from Finland or any of five countries in the Western Balkans (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia)
  • 70 years of age or older
  • Living in Angered, Gothenburg
  • Living in their ordinary housing
  • Not dependent on informal or formal help in daily activities

Exclusion criteria

  • Impaired cognition, Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) below 80% of administered items

Treatment and study plan

Senior meetings

Behavioral

The intervention will be led by professionals such as a registered occupational therapist, a nurse, a physical therapist, and a social worker. The intervention will comprise four weekly meetings in small groups (4-6 participants) in addition to an individual follow-up home visit two to three weeks after the last senior meeting. To use groups involve the possibility of peer education where participants in a person-centeredness perspective are seen as experts on their own situation and learn from each other. The relationship between the personnel and the participants in the senior meetings can be described as a partnership. Respect for the participant and his/her values, and that the participant gets an opportunity to maintain and develop their own power over their own everyday activities will be essential in the meeting.

Primary outcomes

  1. Change of Activities of Daily Life (ADL)

    Time frame: change from baseline at 6 months and 1 year

    The ADL-staircase

  2. Change of Sense of Coherence (KASAM)

    Time frame: change from basline at 6 months and 1 year

    KASAM (by Antonovsky)

Secondary outcomes

  1. Change of Fatigue

    Time frame: baseline, 6 months, and 1 year

    The Mob-T scale

  2. Change of Grip strength

    Time frame: baseline, 6 months, and 1 year

    North Coast-dynamometer

  3. Change of Physical activity

    Time frame: basline, 6 months, and 1 year

    Questionnaire and Physical and domestic activity scale

  4. Change of Balance

    Time frame: basline, 6 months, and 1 year

    The balance scale

  5. Change of Gait speed

    Time frame: basline, 6 months, and 1 year

    Four-meter walking test

  6. Change of Weight loss

    Time frame: basline, 6 months, and 1 year

    The Göteborg Quality of Life Instrument

  7. Change of Cognition

    Time frame: basline, 6 months, and 1 year

    Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE)

  8. Change of Visual impairment

    Time frame: basline, 6 months, and 1 year

    KM-visual acuity chart

  9. Change of Falls

    Time frame: basline, 6 months, and 1 year

    Questionnaire

  10. Change of Fear of falls

    Time frame: baseline, 6 months, 1 year

    FES-I

  11. Change of Illness

    Time frame: Baline, 6 months, and 1 year

    CIRS-G

  12. Change of Symptoms

    Time frame: Basline, 6 months, and 1 year

    The Göteborg Quality of Life Instrument

  13. Change of Change of Depression

    Time frame: Baseline, 6 months, and 1 year

    GDS 20

  14. Health-care consumption

    Time frame: Baseline, 6 months, and 1 year

    Register data

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Göteborg University

Other

Collaborators

  • The Swedish Research Council

Registry information

Official study title

Livslots Angered - A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Community-based Health-promoting and Disease-preventive Program for Older Foreign Born Adults

Important dates

Study start
2012
Primary completion
2016
Study completion
2016
First posted
Apr 29, 2013
Registry last updated
May 13, 2019

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