DETECT-RPC Universal EM Screening

The University of Texas System (UT)

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Elder Mistreatment; Elder Abuse

Treatments: Behavioral: Detection of Elder mistreatment Through Emergency Care Technicians-Revised for Primary Care (DETECT-RPC) screening tool

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT05958654

4R33AG078523-03 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

DETECT-RPC

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether the use of the Detection of Elder Mistreatment Through Emergency Care Technicians-Revised for Primary Care (DETECT-RPC) screening tool increases the average reporting of elder mistreatment (EM) by homebased primary care (HBPC) clinicians.

Enrollment: 43 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria (Clinicians):

• Clinician who actively provides home-based primary care (HBPC) to patients enrolled in one of our partner home-based primary care programs at least part time.

Exclusion Criteria (Clinicians):

• HBPC Clinicians must be a physician, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant who actively provides home-based primary care to patients enrolled at a partner site HBPC at least part time

Inclusion Criteria (patients):

• in home-based primary care
• 60 years or older
• seen by a clinician participating in the study

Exclusion Criteria (patients)

• Must be aged 60 and older, enrolled in a site-specific partner HBPC and treated in their primary residence

Trial design

Primary purpose: Screening

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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43 participants in 2 patient groups

with DETECT-RPC screening tool

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Detection of Elder mistreatment Through Emergency Care Technicians-Revised for Primary Care (DETECT-RPC) screening tool

without DETECT-RPC screening tool

No Intervention group