Evaluating Quebec's Red-Cross Intervention

Centre integre universitaire de sante et de services sociaux du Centre-Sud-de-l'Île-de-Montréal

Status: Completed

Conditions: Aging; Social Isolation

Treatments: Other: Recommendations and re-orientation towards appropriate physical, mental, and social health ressources

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05099042

2022-1418

Details and patient eligibility

About

With the COVID-19 pandemic, elderly people (EP) living at home have seen their health deteriorated, thus increasing their needs in support and care. Indeed, while it was estimated that before the pandemic120 000 unattended living at home EP required care and services (taking bath, access to medication and food, etc.), the number doubled after COVID-19. Therefore, the waiting list for socio-medical services for unattended vulnerable clientele without a family doctor grew from 1300 to 1715 EP in a couple of months during the pandemic. With these numbers, it becomes clear that an intervention is needed. Truly, the Institut National d'Excellence en Santé et Services Sociaux (INESSS) concludes that it was pivotal to first identify the most vulnerable EP and second re-orient them according to their needs.

Thus the principal investigator developed the Évaluation et orientation SOcio-GÉRiatrique (ESOGER) questionnaire available on a secure digital platform enabling both a rapid evaluation and intervention to asses EP needs and provide the adequate ressources. The principal investigator's previous research has demonstrated that ESOGER is one of the rare clinical tools of first contact in telehealth while being global, multidimensional, and equitable.

Hence, the principal investigator hypothesizes that ESOGER is a clinical tool enabling first line care by the Red-Cross to vulnerable EP without a family doctor, which will lead to an improvement in their health, autonomy and quality of life. Moreover, the principal investigator also hypothesizes that for a better deployment, the tool needs to be adapted to Red-Cross' need and EP service providers.

Enrollment: 300 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Aged 65 and more
• Living at home
• Be registered at the waiting list of GACO at the CIUSSS-Centre-Sud de l'île-de-Montréal (CCSMTL)

Exclusion criteria

• Principal address outside of the CCSMTL territory
• Participate at another clinical trial, to avoid interferences
• Not understand written or spoken French or English, questionnaires are only available in French and English.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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300 participants in 2 patient groups

Group intervention - questionnaire and recommendations

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention group will take the ESOGER questionnaire at month 0 and month 3 ( beginning and end) and receive recommendations following their needs.

Treatment:

Other: Recommendations and re-orientation towards appropriate physical, mental, and social health ressources

Group control - questionnaire without recommendations

No Intervention group

Description:

The participants will only take the ESOGER questionnaire at month 0 and month 3 without recommendations.