ArticleBMC geriatrics2020
Effectiveness of a health-social partnership program for discharged non-frail older adults: a pilot study.
Article in BMC geriatrics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04434742 (The Effects of a Health-social Partnership Program for Discharged Non-frail Older Adults), which is not on this map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The Effects of a Health-social Partnership Program for Discharged Non-frail Older Adults: a Pilot Study
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.
- Community-based interventions to support aging in place and functional independence in older adults: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.Frontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
- Effectiveness of a Telecare-Based Intervention Program in Supporting Informal Caregivers of Community-Dwelling Older Adults in Reducing Stress Levels: Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2026Trial
- Effect of a Mobile Health Application With Nurse Support on Quality of Life Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults in Hong Kong: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2022Trial
- Community-Based Health-Social Partnership Programme (C-HSPP) for enhancing self-care management among older adults: protocol for a hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Implementation of a Faith Community Nursing Transition of Care Program in the USA: A Propensity Score Matching Analysis.Journal of religion and health · 2025Article
- A health-social service partnership programme for improving the health self-management of community-dwelling older adults: a hybrid effectiveness-implementation pilot study protocol.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2023Article
- Effect of a telecare-based intervention on stress levels in informal caregivers of older adults: protocol for a randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- A randomized controlled trial of an mHealth application with nursing interaction to promote quality of life among community-dwelling older adults.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundPrevious studies supporting discharged patients are hospital-based which admission criteria tend to include mainly those with complex needs and/or specific disease conditions. This study captured the service gap where these non-frail older patients might have no specific medical problem upon discharge but they might encounter residual health and social issues when returning home.
methodsDischarged community-dwelling non-frail older adults from an emergency medical ward were recruited and randomized into either intervention (n = 37) or control (n = 38) group. The intervention group received a 12-week complex interventions that included structured assessment, health education, goal empowerment, and care coordination supported by a health-social team. The control group received usual discharge care and monthly social call. The primary outcome was health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Secondary outcomes included activities of daily living (ADL), the presence of depressive symptoms, and the use of health services. The outcomes were measured at pre-intervention (T1) and at three months post-intervention (T2). The independent t-test or the Mann-Whitney U test was used to analyze the group differences in HRQoL, ADL, and presence of depressive symptoms according to the normality of data.
resultsAnalysis showed that the intervention group experienced a statistically significantly improvement in the mental component scale of quality of life (p = .036), activities of daily living (p = .005), and presence of depressive symptoms (p = .035) at T2 compared with at T1. No significant differences were found in the control group.
conclusionsSupporting self-care is necessary to enable community-dwelling non-frail older adults to be independent to the fullest extent possible in the community. The promising results found in this pilot study suggested that the integration of the health-social partnership into transitional care practice is effective and can be sustained in the community. Future studies can draw on these findings and maximize the integrated care quality during the transition phase.
trial registrationNCT04434742 (date: 17 June 2020, retrospectively registered).
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