Clinical and Economic Assessment of a Pre-frail Screening Program

Clinical and Economic Assessment of an Opportunistic Screening Program for Pre-frailty State in Elderly Population.

Status

Completed

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT02138968

Enrollment

170

Registered

2014-05-15

Start date

2013-09-30

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2015-09-01

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Conditions

Elderly, Pre-frail

Keywords

Pre-frailty, Frail, Exercise, Nutritional assessment, Functional capacity

Brief summary

The study intervention improves functional capacity and delays frailty status in pre-frail elderly subjects.

Interventions

OTHERMultidisciplinary intervention

Multidimensional intervention based on: good control of baseline diseases, review of medication adequacy, exercise program, nutritional assessment and control, social assessment and control.

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

70 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* More than 70 years consulting in primary care * Non institutionalized * Pre-frailty according to L.Fried criteria (1 or 2 criteria) * Signed informed consent

Exclusion criteria

* Patient not able to stand by himself/herself * Dementia * Palliative care or life expectancy less than 6 months * Blind patient * unstable clinical situation * Participation in other programs, studies or trials for elderly people

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Functional capacity according to Barthel score and Timed up and go test.	One year	Barthel score and Timed up and go test.
Frailty according to L.Fried criteria (questionnaire).	One year	L.Fried frailty criteria: (Robust: 0 criteria; Pre-frail: 1-2 criteria; Frail: \>=3 criteria) 1. Weight loss 2. Fatigue 3. Poor physical activity 4. Low walking speed 5. Low muscle strength Reference of L.Fried: J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2001 Mar; 56(3):M146-56. PMID: 11253156.

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Mortality	One year	—
Health resource consumption (composite measure)	One year	Number of visits to primary care center, number of visits to hospital emergency department, number of hospitalizations, days of hospital stay, institutionalization to nursing homes, visits to nutritionist and visits to social services.
Nutritional status according to MNA-sf.	One year	Mini Nutritional Assessment short form (MNA-sf).
Quality of live according to EuroQoL.	One year	EuroQoL.

Other

Measure	Time frame
Pain according Visual Analog Scale.	One year

Countries

Spain

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 28, 2026