Trial reportThe journal of nutrition, health & aging2016
Improving Health Related Quality of Life and Independence in Community Dwelling Frail Older Adults through a Client-Centred and Activity-Oriented Program. A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial.
Trial report in The journal of nutrition, health & aging, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Pooled it
- Physical Frailty: ICFSR International Clinical Practice Guidelines for Identification and Management.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2019Guideline
- Delaying and reversing frailty: a systematic review of primary care interventions.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2019Pooled it
- Interventions for frail community-dwelling older adults have no significant effect on adverse outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC geriatrics · 2018Pooled it
- Effectiveness of interventions to prevent pre-frailty and frailty progression in older adults: a systematic review.JBI database of systematic reviews and implementation reports · 2018Pooled it
- The Relationship Between Frailty and Emotional Health in Older Patients with Advanced Cancer.The oncologist · 2021Trial
- Older Adults with Cancer: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Occupational and Physical Therapy.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2019Trial
- Development of a complex intervention aimed at reducing the risk of readmission of elderly patients discharged from the emergency department using the intervention mapping protocol.BMC health services research · 2018Trial
- Effectiveness of the "Elderly Activity Performance Intervention" on elderly patients' discharge from a short-stay unit at the emergency department: a quasi-experimental trial.Clinical interventions in aging · 2018Trial
- Article
- Preliminary results of a multidimensional approach to screen for frailty in community-dwelling older adults of eight Italian regions: the SUNFRAIL+ study.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Rehabilitation delivery models to foster healthy ageing-a scoping review.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2024Article
- Effectiveness of client-centered intervention delivered with face-to-face and telerehabilitation method after total knee arthroplasty-A pilot randomized control trial.The British journal of occupational therapy · 2022Article
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- Health, social care and technological interventions to improve functional ability of older adults living at home: An evidence and gap map.Campbell systematic reviews · 2021Article
- The Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle stays the front-runner in geriatrics and gerontology.Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2019Article
- Physical Activity Types and Health-Related Quality of Life among Middle-Aged and Elderly Adults: The Rotterdam Study.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2018Article
- What works for whom in the management of diabetes in people living with dementia: a realist review.BMC medicine · 2017Review
- Association between Physical Frailty and Quality of Life in a Representative Sample of Community-Dwelling Swiss Older People.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2017Article
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Abstract
INTRODUCTION AND
aimIn the ageing society, a considerable part of the older adults are frail. Frailty has a major impact on the individual's quality of life, independence and also on his environment. This study aimed to investigate - as a secondary prevention of disability - the effectiveness of a client-centred and activity-oriented intervention program for frail community living older adults. It was hypothesized that this program could be effective in improving basic Activities of Daily Living (b-ADL) and increasing Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL).
methodThis study was a single blind randomized controlled trial with an intervention and a control group (pre-test-post-test control group design). Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to compare the outcome across groups with post-test as outcome and baseline values as a covariate. Data were analysed using the intention-to-treat principle.
resultsThe intervention group (n = 86) experienced more improvement on b-ADL and HRQoL compared with the control group (n = 82). These effects were statistically significant for the b-ADL index (p = 0.013) and the 'physical subscale pain' (p = 0.049). DISCUSSION AND
conclusionThese positive results can be seen as promising for further development of intervention strategies, although follow-up study should be conducted to determine long term effectiveness.
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