Navigation for Elderly People With Multiple Morbidity After Hospital Discharge.

Trial statusNot yet recruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age60+
SponsorHospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

About this trial

This research aims to create and test a tracking (navigation) model to assist in providing care guidance to elderly people (60 years or older) who have two or more chronic diseases at the same time (multimorbidity) immediately after being discharged from the hospital.

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Elderly individuals aged 60 or older;

With confirmed multimorbidity documented in their medical records;

Hospitalized in the SUS (Unified Health System) clinical units (5th North, 6th North, and 7th North), regardless of specialty;

Who will be discharged home;

Disqualifiers

Elderly people hospitalized in restricted access clinical units (6th south), and those with private insurance or paying out-of-pocket (4th south);

Those transferred to another hospital service or to other institutions;

Patients who are already receiving or will receive navigation care or other safe discharge follow-up care;

Patients in palliative care.

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Navigation for elderly people after hospital discharge.

    Behavioral

    Patients in the intervention group will be followed for six months through monthly teleconsultations by the doctoral researcher and other nurses with experience in elderly health, as well as nursing students who will be trained and supervised by the researcher to provide standardized care in order to avoid bias.

  • Routine care.

    Other intervention

    Routine care.

Treatment groups

148 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups
Group A: interventionExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group B: ControlPlacebo comparator 1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

Adherence to self-care

Assessed by the Brazilian version of the Self-Care of Chronic Illness Inventory

Time frame
6 months

Secondary outcomes

Other outcomes

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