Clinical trial NCT03155815: Assessing Dementia Risk in the Community: The Dementia Population Risk Tool
Official title: Dementia Population Risk Tool (DemPoRT): A Predictive Algorithm for Assessing Dementia Risk in the Community Setting
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Dementia
Lead sponsor: Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
name: Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences
First posted: 2017-05-16
Enrollment: 75460
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 55
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: RETROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: The derivation cohort will be eligible respondents to the combined 2001, 2003, 2005 and 2007 Canadian Community Health Surveys, conducted by Statistics Canada. The validation cohort will consist of respondents to the 2008/2009 survey.

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to develop and validate the Dementia Population Risk Tool (DemPoRT) algorithm to predict dementia incidence in the population setting.

Detailed description: The burden of disease from dementia is a growing global concern as incidence increases exponentially with age and average life expectancy has been increasing around the world. Planning for an aging population requires reliable projections of future dementia prevalence and resource requirements, however, existing population projections are simple and have poor predictive accuracy. The Dementia Population Risk Tool (DemPoRT) will predict incidence of dementia in the population setting using multivariable modeling techniques.

The derivation cohort will consist of elderly Ontario respondents of Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) (2001, 2003, 2005, 2007; approximately 19 000 males and 25 000 females). Pre-specified predictors include sociodemographic, general health, behavioral, functional and health condition variables. Incident dementia will be identified through individual linkage of survey respondents to population-level administrative health care databases. Using time of first dementia capture as the primary outcome and death as a competing risk, sex-specific proportional hazards regression models will be estimated. The 2008/2009 CCHS survey be used for validation (approximately 4 600 males and 6 300 females). Overall calibration and discrimination will be assessed as well as calibration within predefined subgroups of importance to clinicians and policy makers.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Respondents to the Canadian Community Health Surveys

Exclusion Criteria:

* Less than 55 years of age at survey administration
* Prior history of dementia
* Not eligible for Ontario's universal health insurance program

Primary outcomes:
measure: Dementia capture in administrative data
timeFrame: Up to 13 years
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
Study officials:
affiliation: Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
name: Peter Tanuseputro
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Fisher S, Hsu A, Mojaverian N, Taljaard M, Huyer G, Manuel DG, Tanuseputro P. Dementia Population Risk Tool (DemPoRT): study protocol for a predictive algorithm assessing dementia risk in the community. BMJ Open. 2017 Oct 24;7(10):e018018. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018018.