Interprofessional Health Needs Assessment (IHNA) for Older Adults Living at Home (Impact-INHA)

July 2, 2026 updated by: Marianne Storm, University of Stavanger

Implementing and Evaluating the Impact of Interprofessional Health Needs Assessment (INHA) for Older Adults Living at Home

The aim of this randomized controlled trial is to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the Interprofessional Health Needs Assessment (IHNA) in older adults living at home. Specifically, the trial will assess the effects of IHNA on health-related quality of life, social care-related quality of life, survival, and health service utilization.

The primary objective is to determine the effect of IHNA on participants' health-related quality of life at 12 months. Secondary objectives are to assess its effects on social care-related quality of life, survival (time to death), health service utilization, and quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) at 6 and 12 months.

Study Overview

Status

Recruiting

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

Early identification of health needs among home-dwelling elderly adults is crucial for maintaining health and function, improving quality of life, and preventing hospitalizations. When allocating municipal health and care services, healthcare professionals assess functional abilities and health needs. Based on this assessment, services such as emergency alarms, everyday rehabilitation, home nursing care, practical assistance at home, and assistive devices are assigned. However, there is no standardized approach to what should be included in these assessments or how they should be conducted.

This project develops a procedure for interprofessional health needs assessment (IHNA) to systematically identify and address the health needs of older adults living at home. IHNA integrates the older adult's values and preferences into the assessment, ensuring that interventions and services align with their priorities. IHNA incorporates screening tools for a structured and holistic assessment of health and social domains.

The project involves co-creation of IHNA with healthcare professionals and older adults, workplace training in the effective use of IHNA, and implementation in two Norwegian municipalities through a randomized controlled trial.

By developing interprofessional practices for assessing health needs and equipping healthcare professionals with screening tools and training, the project will help municipalities provide fairer, more effective services to home-dwelling older adults.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Estimated)

200

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Contact

  • Name: Arnt Egil Ydstebø

Study Locations

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • 65 years and older
  • applying for a municipal health and care service at home (i.e., practical assistance, home nursing, assistive devices, rehabilitation, day care center)
  • the health care service will have a duration of more than 2 weeks

Exclusion Criteria:

  • younger than 65 years
  • diagnosed with dementia
  • life expectancy shorter than 6 months
  • applying for a nursing home placement

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: Double

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: INHA Intervention group
The intervention group will be assessed using INHA
Other: Interprofessional Health Needs Assesement (INHA)

Interprofessional teams with a nurse, physiotherapist, or occupational therapist from Stavanger and Sandnes municipalities will assess participants in the intervention group using the Interprofessional Health Needs Assessment (INHA) procedure. INHA includes screening tools to assess mobility, cognition, mental health, nutrition and oral health, vision and hearing, activities of daily living, social network, physical and behavioural health.

Based on the IHNA findings, the interprofessional teams, in collaboration with the older adult, will decide on allocating municipal health services, making referrals, and giving advice on available preventive and health promotion interventions from the municipality's health and care services and relevant voluntary and private actors.
No Intervention: Control group
The participants in the control group will be assessed by the standard assessment form used by the municipality and have services allocated as usual.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Health-related quality of life
Time Frame: Baseline, 6 months and 12 months
Health-related quality of life will be assessed using the EuroQol 5-Dimension 5-Level questionnaire (EQ-5D-5L). The EQ-5D-5L descriptive system comprises five dimensions: mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort, and anxiety/depression. Each dimension has five response levels: no problems, slight problems, moderate problems, severe problems, and extreme problems/unable to perform. Responses are combined into a 5-digit health-state profile, with 11111 representing the best health state and 55555 the worst health state. Health state will be converted into a utility index score, with higher scores indicating better health-related quality of life. The primary outcome will be the change in EQ-5D-5L utility index score from baseline to 12 months.
Baseline, 6 months and 12 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Self-rated health
Time Frame: Baseline, 6 months, and 12 months

The EuroQol Visual Analog Scale (EQ VAS) will be assessed as a secondary outcome measure of self-rated health. Participants rate their current health on a scale from 0 to 100.

A score of 100 is equivalent to the best possible health. A score of 0 is equivalent to the worst possible health. Changes in EQ VAS scores from baseline to 6 months and 12 months will be evaluated, with higher scores indicating better perceived health.
Baseline, 6 months, and 12 months
Social care related quality of life
Time Frame: Baseline, 6 months, and 12 months
The Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT) will be used as a secondary outcome measure of social care-related quality of life. ASCOT covers eight domains: control over daily life, personal cleanliness and comfort, food and drink, personal safety, social participation and involvement, occupation, accommodation cleanliness and comfort, and dignity. Each domain has four response options scored from 0 to 3, with higher scores indicating better outcomes. Domain responses will be combined into an overall ASCOT score, with higher scores indicating better social care-related quality of life. Changes in ASCOT scores from baseline to 6 months and 12 months will be evaluated.
Baseline, 6 months, and 12 months
Time to death (survival)
Time Frame: Baseline to 12 months
Time from baseline to death within 12 months will be obtained from municipal electronic patient records. Longer survival indicates a better outcome.
Baseline to 12 months
Health care utilization
Time Frame: 6 and 12 months
Health care utilization will be assessed as a secondary outcome measure. Data on nursing home admissions, municipal emergency service visits, and hospital admissions will be obtained from the Norwegian Registry for Primary Health Care and the Norwegian Patient Registry. Health care utilization will be measured as the number of nursing home admissions, municipal emergency service visits, and hospital admissions during the 6- and 12-month follow-up periods. Lower health care utilization indicates better outcomes.
6 and 12 months
Quality-Adjusted Life Years ( QALYs)
Time Frame: Baseline, 6 months and 12 months
Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) will be a secondary outcome, measuring the combined effects of the intervention on survival and health-related quality of life. QALYs will be calculated over the 12-month follow-up period by combining survival with health utility values derived from the EQ-5D. Higher QALYs indicate better overall health outcomes. QALY estimates will be used to inform cost-effectiveness analyses.
Baseline, 6 months and 12 months

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

University of Stavanger

Collaborators

Stavanger Municipality, Norway
Sandnes Municipality, Norway

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

March 10, 2026

Primary Completion (Estimated)

December 31, 2028

Study Completion (Estimated)

June 30, 2029

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

June 17, 2026

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

July 2, 2026

First Posted (Actual)

July 7, 2026

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

July 7, 2026

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

July 2, 2026

Last Verified

July 1, 2026

More Information

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Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 355225 (Other Grant/Funding Number: The Research Council Of Norway)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

UNDECIDED

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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