Clinical trial NCT06204224: Personal Variables Affecting the Successful Aging
Official title: Personal Variables Affecting the Successful Aging Level of Individuals Age of Sixty and Over
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Aging
Healthy Lifestyle
Coping Skills
Keywords: successful aging
aging
healthy aging
family medicine
Lead sponsor: Marmara University Pendik Training and Research Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Haydarpasa Numune Training and Research Hospital
First posted: 2024-01-12
Enrollment: 300
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 60
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: CASE_ONLY
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Participants aged 60 and above, who presented to the Family Medicine Clinics of Haydarpaşa Numune Training and Research Hospital between January 3, 2019, and May 30, 2019, for any reason; and voluntarily agreed to participate, were included in our study.

Brief summary: Three hundreds patients aged 60 years and older applicant for any reasons between January 3, 2019 and May 30, 2019, in Health Sciences University Haydarpaşa Numune Training and Research Hospital Family Medicine Polyclinics. A 21-item questionnaire including demographic information was asked to the individuals who gave consent to participate in the study, voluntarily, and who met the participation criteria and the Successful Aging Scale was administered face-to-face with the questionnaire method. Participants were evaluated under two subheadings according to the Successful Aging Scale and the results were compared with their demographic characteristics.

Detailed description: In our cross-sectional study; the target sample size was calculated as 299, with a population of 1350. The prevalence was 50%, the standard error was 5% in a 95% confidence interval. Between 03.01.2019 and 30.05.2019; 300 elderly volunteers who applied to the Health Sciences University Haydarpaşa Numune Training and Research Hospital Family Medicine Polyclinics for any reason, who were not diagnosed with neuropsychiatric disease, do not had physical or mental problems that would prevent them from understanding and filling the scales and do not have a health problem that require urgent intervention are included. Participants were informed, their consent was taken, and a 21-item sociodemographic form prepared by the researchers was applied. Afterwards, a 7-point Likert-type "Successful Aging Scale" (SAS) consisting of 10 questions was applied to the participants.16 The scale had two sub-components, namely "healthy lifestyle" (HL) and "adaptive coping" (AC). The values of the expressions in the scale were as "strongly agree:7, agree:6, partially agree:5, undecided:4, partially disagree:3, disagree:2, strongly disagree:1". The values for each individual were summed up and the scale was evaluated by subtracting the total score. Finally, the results from the questionnaire and the Successful Aging Scale were compared and analyzed according to subcomponents.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Not having received a diagnosis of dementia at any stage of life.
* Not having any cognitive or physical impediments that hinder understanding and completing the scales.
* Having full orientation and cooperation.
* Having completed the scales in their entirety.
* The absence of symptoms or diseases requiring urgent intervention.
* Voluntarily participating in the study and having signed the informed consent form after being informed.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Having received a diagnosis of dementia.
* Having cognitive and physical impediments that hinder understanding the scales.
* Lack of full orientation and cooperation.
* Having a clinically significant diagnosis of an active psychiatric disorder.
* having symptoms of a situation requiring urgent intervention.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Sociodemographic properties affect successful aging scores
timeFrame: 1 week
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Healthy life habits affect successful aging scores
timeFrame: 1 week
measure: Having chronic diseases affect successful aging scores
timeFrame: 1 week
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: İstanbul
country: Turkey
facility: Haydarpaşa Numune Research and Training Hospital
state: Üsküdar
Study officials:
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