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Feasibility and Effects of Preventive Home Visits for Older Adults

NCT00985283 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 110

Last updated 2011-09-16

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The goals of this project are to implement an innovative intervention for older adults and assess both its feasibility and effects on health and well-being. The investigators hypothesize that the intervention group will show a significantly better slope for a range of outcomes during and after the intervention.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Preventive home visit

in-home visit by a trained occupational therapist to assess older adult's living context and occupational performance and to provide recommendations for changes or continuation of behavior or context

BEHAVIORAL

minimal intervention

provision of information related to services and health promotion for older adults as a low-cost minimal alternative to the intervention

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Malcolm P. Cutchin, PhD · University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-01-31
Primary Completion
2010-05-31
Completion
2010-05-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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