The Effect of Audible Alarm on the Fluid Consumption of the Elderly

The Effect of an Audible Alarm on the Fluid Consumption of The Elderly Living in a Nursing Home: A Randomized, Controlled Trial

Research shows that older people need reminders to increase fluid consumption. The aim of the research was to investigate the effect of an audible alarm on the fluid consumption of old people living in a nursing home. The research was conducted as a single-blind, randomized controlled, prospective experimental study on the pre-test post-test model.

The study was performed between 27 July 2017 and 1 February 2018 at a nursing home in the west of Turkey. Out of 979 in nursing home who conformed to the inclusion criteria of the study, 100 (intervention group (n: 50) and control group (n: 50) were voluntarily included in the sample. The intervention group was given education and a wristwatch which gave an audible alarm to remind them to drink liquid, the control group was given only education. The old people in both groups were monitored before the education, after the education, after the audible alarm and 15 days after the audible alarm every three days on total of 12 days. The amount of liquid that the elderly should drink daily was determined according to Gaspar formula.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: The Elderly
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Intervention group; Behavioral: Control group

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 100
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Turkey
  • İzmir, Turkey
    • Izmir Katip Celebi University

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 65 years and older (OLDER_ADULT)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Criteria for inclusion in the study were being aged 65 or over, not having a fluid deficiency and living in nursing home.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Exclusion criteria were having an education level of less than primary education
• Being visually or aurally impaired,
• Being bedridden,
• Not being able to take liquids orally, Having health problems such as fever,
• Vomiting, diarrhea or kidney disease causing fluid loss,
• Taking diuretic medication and using more than more than five doses per day,
• Having a diagnosis of a disease such as kidney failure or cardiac insufficiency requiring restriction of fluids, or having a diagnosis of neurological or psychiatric dysfunction, or dementia or Alzheimer's.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Interventional Model: CROSSOVER
• Masking: NONE

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
EXPERIMENTAL: Intervention group; Procedure/Surgery:The intervention group was given education and a wristwatch which gave an audible alarm to remind them to drink liquid.	Behavioral: Intervention group; The elderly in this group were trained using the "For Your Health For Fluid" training booklet and a projection device, and after training, all individuals were given a training booklet. The training was carried out individually in a room reserved for training and took an average of 25-30 minutes. A Beyid wristwatch was used. This spoke the time in Turkish, every hour on the hour. In this way, the old people were reminded to drink a glass of liquid each hour. The watch had an alarm capability, and could be taken on to sleep mode at night in order not to wake the old people.; Behavioral: Control group; The elderly in this group were trained using the "For Your Health For Fluid" training booklet and a projection device, and after training, all individuals were given a training booklet. The training was carried out individually in a room reserved for training and took an average of 25-30 minutes.
NO_INTERVENTION: Control group; The control group was given only education.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Total amount of fluids taken by the elderly	The elderly in the intervention and control groups; before the education (on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th days of the study), after the education (on the 6th, 7th and 8th days of the research), after the audible stimulus (on the 9th, 10th and 11th days of the research), and 15 days after the audible stimulus monitoring (26, On the 27th and 28th days), the total amount of fluid he consumed daily was measured and recorded by the nurse.	Through study completion, about three years
Fluid deficit of the elderly	The elderly in the intervention and control groups; before the training (on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th days of the study), after the training (on the 6th, 7th and 8th days of the research), after the audible stimulus (on the 9th, 10th and 11th days of the research), and 15 days after the audible stimulus monitoring (26, On the 27th and 28th days), the 24-hour amount of urine and the urine concentration was measured and recorded by the nurse.	Through study completion, about three years

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Izmir Katip Celebi University
• Investigators: Study Chair: Perihan ÇETİN, Assistant Professor, PhD, Izmir Katip Celebi University; Study Director: İsmet EŞER, Professor, Ege University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (ACTUAL): July 27, 2017
• Primary Completion (ACTUAL): February 1, 2018
• Study Completion (ACTUAL): December 20, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: January 16, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 24, 2020
• First Posted (ACTUAL): January 27, 2020

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ACTUAL): January 27, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 24, 2020
• Last Verified: January 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Elderly; nursing home; fluid consumption; fluid deficiency; audible alarm
• Other Study ID Numbers: 17-7.1/36; 27.07.2017

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No