The Effect on Function of Increasing Activity for Nursing Home Residents

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Status: Completed

Conditions: Nursing Home Residents; Frailty

Treatments: Behavioral: Individualized exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00218842

203-04

Details and patient eligibility

About

As designs of existing outcome studies are disparate and do not always relate well to a Swedish context, the need for further studies is obvious. Also, an empirical theory drawn from the best practice supporting autonomy and wellbeing for clients in a nursing home setting has not yet been fully depicted. The study described below intends to fill a gap in knowledge related to the effect of enhanced activities of daily living (ADL)-training, physical, and daily activities and staff education in a nursing home setting, based on a theory- and evidence-based intervention programme in a Swedish as well as a Nordic health care context. The aims of the study are to describe the impact of an individually tailored intervention program, in a nursing home setting, on:

• Physical capacity
• Degree of dependence in ADL
• Long-term participation in physical and/or daily activities
• Self-rated wellbeing

Full description

The Trondheim study has additional aims to assess the impact of intervention on:

• Urinary incontinence
• Falls

Enrollment: 125 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• > 65 years of age
• Expected stay in the nursing home > 3 months
• Able to take instruction

Exclusion criteria

• Persons in a terminal phase

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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125 participants in 2 patient groups

exercise group

Experimental group

Description:

individualized exercise

Treatment:

Behavioral: Individualized exercise

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

care as usal