TRialing individualized interventions to prevent functional decline in at-risk older adults (TRIIFL): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial nested in a longitudinal observational study

Trials

Kay Price¹  Alan Crockett²  Saravana Kumar³  Kate Beaton³  Julie Luker³  Karen Grimmer³ 

[1] Safety and Quality in Health Research Group, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia;Exercise for Health and Human Performance, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia;International Centre for Allied Health Evidence, University of South Australia, GPO Box 2471, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

关键词: Patient-centered care;    Prevention;    Screening;    Aging;    Functional decline;   

Others  :  1093194
DOI  :  10.1186/1745-6215-14-266

 received in 2013-03-08, accepted in 2013-08-06,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Background

Functional decline (FD) is a largely preventable feature of aging, characterized as gradual erosion of functional autonomy. This reduces an older person’s capacity for safe, independent community living. The healthcare needs of an unprecedented aging population places pressure on health systems to develop innovative approaches to ensuring older people live healthy and independent lives for as long as possible.

TRIIFL aims to demonstrate that:

1. Incipient FD in older people can be identified using a simple telephone-screening process within four weeks of discharge from an emergency department presentation for a minor health event; and

2. Early engagement into a person-centered individualized intervention arrests or reduces the rate of FD over the next 12 months.

Methods/Design

A randomized controlled trial (RCT) nested within a 13-month longitudinal cohort study. The RCT (conducted over 12 months) tests the effectiveness of a novel, early, home-based, personalized program (compared with no intervention) in arresting or slowing FD.

TRIIFL focuses on older adults living independently in the community, who have not yet had a serious health event, yet are potentially on the cusp of FD. Participants in the longitudinal cohort study will be recruited as they present to one large tertiary hospital Emergency Department, providing they are not subsequently admitted to a ward. Sample size calculations indicate that 570 participants need to be recruited into the longitudinal study, with 100 participants randomized into the trial arms.

Measures from all subjects will be taken face-to-face at baseline (recruitment), then subsequently by telephone at one, four, seven and thirteen months later. Measures include functional abilities, quality of life, recent falls, mobility dependence, community supports and health service usage. Specific to the nested RCT, the quality of life tool (SF12) applied at one month, will identify individuals with low mental component quality of life scores, who will be invited to enter the RCT.

Assessors will be blinded to RCT arm allocation, and subjects in the RCT will be blinded to the intervention being received by other subjects.

Trials Registration

Australian & New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry: ACTRN12613000234718

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Grimmer et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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