NCT01693536

Can Primary Care Change Elderly Physical Activity and Salt Intake? An Australian Pilot Trial

Effective Change of Behaviour of the Elderly in Normal General Practice

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 85 (actual)
• Sponsor: Health HQ · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 75 Years – 95 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

A randomised controlled trial to test if offering three visits to a dietician + two visits to a physiotherapist over six months + a home sphygmomanometer, will result in a reduction in sodium intake and an increase in fitness in people over 75yrs. Volunteers were enrolled from Oct 2008 to July 2009.

Detailed description

There is evidence that both sedentary lifestyle and high sodium diets contribute to cardiovascular disease and possibly dementia among the elderly. There is a need to show that minimal intervention can reduce sodium intake and increase fitness in the elderly. Finland has shown that five dietician visits/year could change diet in respect to fat and fibre. In Australia the National Health Insurer (Medicare) funds five allied health visits/year for those with chronic disease, hence our use of this model. This is consistent with WHO guidelines for a national approach using existing health infrastructure. The elderly (75-95yrs) were chosen as this group is thought most difficult to change behaviour and has a higher incidence of dementia.

Conditions

• Health Behaviour

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Lifestyle counselling	as in Arm Description

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-10-01
• Primary completion: 2009-07-01
• Completion: 2010-12-01
• First posted: 2012-09-26
• Last updated: 2012-09-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Australia