Clinical trial NCT04166123: Psychometric Properties of the Elderly Health Questionnaire Among Community-dwelling Older People
Official title: Psychometric Properties of the Elderly Health Questionnaire in Frailty Risk Assessment Among Community-dwelling Older People
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Conditions: Frailty
Keywords: frailty
older adults
instrument
community
Lead sponsor: National Taiwan University Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2019-11-18
Enrollment: 150
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 65
Standard ages: OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: ECOLOGIC_OR_COMMUNITY
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: over 65 years old community-dwelling elderly

Brief summary: The aims of this study are to validate the reliability and validity of Elderly Health Questionnaire in assessing frailty risk of community-dwelling older adults.

Detailed description: The aims of this study are to validate the test-retest reliability, internal consistency, criterion-related validity, predictive validity and construct validity of Elderly Health Questionnaire in assessing frailty risk of community-dwelling older adults.

The investigators conduct a prospective study to require data of health states, function, lifestyle and quality of life in community-dwelling older adults ,and will recruit about 150 subjects in NTUH and communities in Taipei City. The investigators analyze the (change) scores of Elderly Health Questionnaire to test the internal consistency and test-retest reliability. Also, the investigators test the correlation between the scores of Elderly Health Questionnaire and the scores of the other measurements (i.e., HELP-T, WHOQOL-BREF, MoCA, SPPB, UPSA-B) to validate the concurrent validity, and the correlation between the scores of Elderly Health Questionnaire and the scores of CFS to validate predictive validity. The construct validity is validated by exploratory factor analysis.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* aged \> 65 years old
* able to read
* Clinical frailty scale ≦ 6

Exclusion Criteria:

* diagnosed as dementia or schizophrenia
* active cancer receiving treatment
* terminal cancer patient
* hospitalization in 1 month
* with implantable device
* couldn't follow the instructions
* wheelchair bound

Primary outcomes:
measure: Elderly Health Questionnaire
timeFrame: an average of 2-4 weeks between pretest and posttest (baseline, week 2-4)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Taiwanese version of the Health Enhancement Lifestyle Profile (HELP-T)
timeFrame: pretest (baseline)
measure: WHOQOL-BREF Taiwan version
timeFrame: pretest (baseline)
measure: Short physical performance battery (SPPB)
timeFrame: pretest (baseline)
measure: Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)
timeFrame: pretest (baseline)
measure: Brief University of California at San Diego Performance-Based Skills Assessment (UPSA-B)
timeFrame: pretest (baseline)
measure: Canadian Study of Health and Aging Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS)
timeFrame: pretest (baseline)
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Taipei
country: Taiwan
facility: National Taiwan University Hospital
Study officials:
affiliation: School of Occupational Therapy, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University
name: Hui-Fen Mao, MS
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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