Anxiety, COVID, Frailty, Social Isolation
Conditions
Brief summary
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease. Physical distancing is one of the most effective ways to reduce the spread of COVID-19, but this key prevention intervention may have adverse consequences on older adults living at home. Screening older adults living at home and at risk for adverse consequences of physical and social distancing is, therefore, a priority in order to prevent their occurrence. ESOGER (Evaluation Social et GERiatrique) is a clinical tool designed to: 1) screen the risk-levels for adverse consequences related to COVID-19 physical distancing and 2) to continue appropriate preventive interventions in older adults living at home including frail older patients and older community dwellers. Experience cumulated during the past two weeks revealed that ESOGER could be improved, in order to be more effective and efficient for the prevention of adverse consequences related to COVID-19 physical distancing. This improvement is based on two key components: 1) Comments of Montreal ESOGER users and 2) Analysis of data. Because at this time no information is saved and stored, there is a need to save and store ESOGER information and create the ESOGER databank.
Interventions
OTHERESOGER
Questionnaire
Sponsors
Jewish General Hospital
Study design
Observational model
COHORT
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
70 Years to No maximum
Inclusion criteria
The inclusion criteria are: 1. Older (i.e., 70-years-old and over) adults OR caregiver living at home with an adult answering to inclusion criteria 2. Living and staying at home because of physical and social distancing 3. Understanding and writing the different languages of the recruitment centre (i.e., French, English, Chinese.) 4. Agree to participate in the study The
Exclusion criteria
are: 1. A concomitant participation to another medical trial 2. Living in semi-autonomous residence or CHSLD
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| psychological frailty | 1 day | anxiety Verbal analogic scale, score from 0 = no anxiety to 10 = extremely anxious) |
| COVID-19 symptoms | 1 day | presence or not of fever, cough and shortness of breath (binary question) |
| issues related to medication and food delivery and access to home care | 1 day | presence or not of a rupture of access to food, medication and home care (binary question) |
| physical frailty | 1 day | Questionnaire Emergency Room Evaluation and Recommandation (ER2), score from 0 = no risk of frailty to 14 = high risk of frailty) |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Caregiver burden | 1 day | Zarit scale, score from 0 = no caregiver burden to 16 = high caregiver burden) |
Countries
Canada
Outcome results
None listed