Recruiting

Observational Study

Sponsor:

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

Code:

NCT05062590

Conditions

Social Isolation

Aging

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 65+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Recommendations

Study Details

Brief summary:

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 à 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) conclude that it was pivotal to first identify the most vulnerable EP and second re-orient them according to their needs. Thus the investigator developed the Évaluation et orientation SOcio-GÉRiatrique (ESOGER) questionnaire available on a secure digital plateform enabling both a rapid evaluation and intervention to asses EP needs and provide the adequate ressources. 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. For this study, the investigator aims to evaluate the effect of ESOGER on EP physical and mental health, loss of autonomy, social isolation, quality of life and ressources consumption.

Conditions

Social Isolation

Aging

Study ID

NCT05062590

Start date

Apr 4, 2022

Status verified date

Feb, 2024

Completion date

Mar, 2026

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Jun, 2025

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 65+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Aged 65 and more
  • Living at home on the territory CIUSSS-Centre-Sud de l'île-de-Montréal (CCSMTL) of Jeanne-Mance
  • Brief Geriatric Assessment (BGA) score of 1/14 or more defining a severly to milidly frail health.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Principal address outside of the CCSMTL's Jeanne-Mance 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.

Study Design

Enrollment

260 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Other

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Group Intervention

Experimental: Group 1 The intervention group will take the ESOGER questionnaire at month 0 and month 3 ( beginning and end) and receive recommendations following their needs.

no intervention: Group control

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

Interventions

Recommendations

Ressources recommendations and interventions curated to the needs of the EP such as refering them to a social activity for socially isolated EP

Primary outcome measure

  • COVID-19 symptoms [ Time Frame: 3 months ]
  • psychological fraility [ Time Frame: 3 months ]
  • Social health [ Time Frame: 3 months ]
  • Socio-economic characteristics [ Time Frame: 3 months ]
  • Participant's Quality of life [ Time Frame: 3 months ]
  • Autonomy [ Time Frame: 3 months ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Locations

CRIUGM

Recruiting

Montréal, Quebec, Canada, H3W 1W5

More Information

Sponsor

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

Last update posted

Feb 23, 2024

Last verified

Feb, 2024

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Centre integre universitaire de sante et de services sociaux du Centre-Sud-de-l'Île-de-Montréal on 2024-02-23.