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Pilot Project: Community Health Assessment Program Through Emergency Medical Services (CHAP-EMS)

11 mei 2016 bijgewerkt door: McMaster University

Older adults living in subsidized housing report poorer health. Their low income and age make it harder for them to use community services. Many older adults have heart disease and diabetes, which lead to frequent emergency calls and hospital admissions. To decrease the costs of treating heart disease and diabetes through emergency and hospitalization, improved screening and health education is needed. The Community Health Assessment Program through Emergency Medical Services (CHAP-EMS) program will take place in communal areas within housing buildings of older adults and deliver a heart disease, diabetes, and falls risk check-up with health education. This is expected to improve the health of older adults leading to fewer emergency calls and hospital visits.

Paramedics on modified duties (e.g. injured) will conduct weekly, one-on-one drop-in sessions for seniors in a common area of one subsidized apartment building in Hamilton, Ontario.

Studie Overzicht

Toestand

Voltooid

Interventie / Behandeling

Gedetailleerde beschrijving

The CHAP-EMS research team has created a multifaceted intervention (cardiovascular, diabetes, and falls risk assessment with health education/promotion and appropriate referral) in partnership with Hamilton Paramedic Service, City Housing Hamilton (CHH), and the Community Care Access Center (CCAC) that focuses on issues experienced by older adults that often lead to EMS calls. CHAP-EMS is based on the Cardiovascular Health Awareness Program (CHAP) model, which combined individual- and population-level strategies for primary prevention and 'closed the loop' by linking participants to follow-up care. Literature demonstrates that the CHAP program resulted in a significant 9% relative reduction in admissions due to stroke, heart failure, and heart attacks in people aged 65 and over.

The original CHAP program was run by trained volunteers. This modified program will be run by accommodated paramedics (unable to assume traditional paramedic duties due to personal limitations such as pregnancy or injuries). Subsidized housing buildings house frail, seriously ill and potentially unstable individuals who may require immediate assistance. Paramedics are an excellent fit to deal with these emergent situations since their training prepares them to accurately assess the patient's health status and the environmental context, and connect patients with primary care physicians, visiting nurses, and community services including falls prevention; these skills can be expanded to provide non-urgent health care services and health promotion work. EMS administrators indicate that there is no shortage of accommodated staff at the Hamilton Paramedic Service and work considered as light duties is scarce.

The objectives are to evaluate whether a weekly 8-hour CHAP-EMS program is associated with changes in (1) number of emergency (911) EMS calls from the seniors' residence building, (2) mean blood pressure (BP) of participants and (3) diabetes risk profile of participants after one year of implementation.

Studietype

Ingrijpend

Inschrijving (Werkelijk)

79

Fase

  • Niet toepasbaar

Contacten en locaties

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Studie Locaties

    • Ontario
      • Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8S4K1
        • McMaster University

Deelname Criteria

Onderzoekers zoeken naar mensen die aan een bepaalde beschrijving voldoen, de zogenaamde geschiktheidscriteria. Enkele voorbeelden van deze criteria zijn iemands algemene gezondheidstoestand of eerdere behandelingen.

Geschiktheidscriteria

Leeftijden die in aanmerking komen voor studie

65 jaar en ouder (Oudere volwassene)

Accepteert gezonde vrijwilligers

Nee

Geslachten die in aanmerking komen voor studie

Allemaal

Beschrijving

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Living in intervention building
  • Aged 65 or over

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Not living in intervention building
  • Under aged 65

Studie plan

Dit gedeelte bevat details van het studieplan, inclusief hoe de studie is opgezet en wat de studie meet.

Hoe is de studie opgezet?

Ontwerpdetails

  • Primair doel: Preventie
  • Toewijzing: NVT
  • Interventioneel model: Opdracht voor een enkele groep
  • Masker: Geen (open label)

Wapens en interventies

Deelnemersgroep / Arm
Interventie / Behandeling
Experimenteel: CHAP-EMS Intervention
Participants guided through a 15-20 minute defined risk assessment by a trained paramedic. Risk factors assessed were those related to cardiovascular and diabetes risk (blood pressure, diabetes-risk status, lifestyle factors), and potential for falls. Based on these, the paramedic provided education and developed an individualized action plan directing participants to use available community resources to assist them in addressing their risk factors. They were advised to return to CHAP-EMS sessions regularly for BP monitoring and follow-up. Each participant's information was faxed to his/her family physician once a month.
The CHAP-EMS program is a low cost community program that is designed to assess community dwelling seniors for lifestyle risk factors that may impact their health and well-being and to provide targeted education to address the pertinent risk factors. Each participant is guided through a structured health-risk assessment focused on diabetes, cardiovascular disease and other potential health issues. The assessment is conducted by a trained paramedic in a common area within the community housing building. Data gathered are used to develop individualized action plans concerning health-risk reduction, to direct participants to local health activities or resources, educate on promoting health and to transmit this information to a participants' family physician.

Wat meet het onderzoek?

Primaire uitkomstmaten

Uitkomstmaat
Maatregel Beschrijving
Tijdsspanne
Change in rate of EMS calls over 1 year
Tijdsspanne: Baseline and 1 year
Building-level change in EMS call rate (pre-post intervention)
Baseline and 1 year

Secundaire uitkomstmaten

Uitkomstmaat
Maatregel Beschrijving
Tijdsspanne
Change in systolic and diastolic blood pressure over 1 year
Tijdsspanne: Baseline and after each assessment (up to 1 year)
Since the participants are invited to attend the intervention weekly, but are not required to attend, the number of assessments and time of assessments will vary. Multilevel analysis will be conducted that accounts for this variance in repeated measures.
Baseline and after each assessment (up to 1 year)
Change in Canadian Diabetes Risk (CANRISK) score over 1 year
Tijdsspanne: Baseline and 1 year
The CANRISK tool provides a 10-year risk of diabetes score and will be administered by the paramedic during the CHAP-EMS session.
Baseline and 1 year

Medewerkers en onderzoekers

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Onderzoekers

  • Hoofdonderzoeker: Gina Agarwal, McMaster University

Publicaties en nuttige links

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Studie record data

Deze datums volgen de voortgang van het onderzoeksdossier en de samenvatting van de ingediende resultaten bij ClinicalTrials.gov. Studieverslagen en gerapporteerde resultaten worden beoordeeld door de National Library of Medicine (NLM) om er zeker van te zijn dat ze voldoen aan specifieke kwaliteitscontrolenormen voordat ze op de openbare website worden geplaatst.

Bestudeer belangrijke data

Studie start

1 november 2013

Primaire voltooiing (Werkelijk)

1 december 2014

Studie voltooiing (Werkelijk)

1 december 2014

Studieregistratiedata

Eerst ingediend

3 mei 2016

Eerst ingediend dat voldeed aan de QC-criteria

11 mei 2016

Eerst geplaatst (Schatting)

13 mei 2016

Updates van studierecords

Laatste update geplaatst (Schatting)

13 mei 2016

Laatste update ingediend die voldeed aan QC-criteria

11 mei 2016

Laatst geverifieerd

1 mei 2016

Meer informatie

Termen gerelateerd aan deze studie

Andere studie-ID-nummers

  • 14 210

Plan Individuele Deelnemersgegevens (IPD)

Bent u van plan om gegevens van individuele deelnemers (IPD) te delen?

Nee

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Klinische onderzoeken op CHAP-EMS

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