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Pilot Study: Complementary Therapies in Geriatric Patients

NCT00974506 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 50

Last updated 2012-07-11

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

In a randomized controlled pilot study the investigators include geriatric patients living in a geriatric residential community. Two interventions are compared:

1. a complex intervention containing exercise therapy, nutritional advice, homeopathy and naturopathy in addition to routine therapy by the general practitioner
2. routine care by general practitioner

The investigators assess the effect of the complex intervention on activities of daily living (AMPS, Barthel Index, Nosger), quality of life (Qualidem, Profile of Wellbeing), risk of falls (Tinetti), falls, cognition (Minimental Status Test), hospital admissions, medication use.

The results of this exploratory study are needed to plan a randomized controlled trial (RCT) with confirmatory design in the future.

Conditions

  • Geriatric Patients

Interventions

OTHER

CAM-intervention

Complex intervention containing exercise therapy, nutritional advice, homeopathic treatment, naturopathic treatment in addition to routine care therapy by general practitioner

OTHER

Routine care therapy

Routine care therapy by general practitioner

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Homöopathie Stiftung

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • omoeon e.V.

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Charite University, Berlin, Germany

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Claudia M Witt, MD · Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Economics, Charité University Medical Center, Berlin, Germany

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-08-31
Primary Completion
2011-04-30
Completion
2011-10-31

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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