NCT04416815: IHOPe

Integrating Health Promotion With and for Older People - eHealth

Recruiting now NA Last updated 12 March 2025

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Integrating Health promotion with and for Older People - eHealth in Frailty in 220 participants. Currently enrolling.

Timeline

25 January 2021

Primary endpoint
31 December 2025

31 December 2027

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Göteborg University
Phase	NA
Status	Recruiting now
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	none
Primary purpose	health services research
Enrollment	220
Start date	25 January 2021
Primary completion	31 December 2025
Estimated completion	31 December 2027
Sites	1 location across Sweden

Drugs / interventions tested

• Integrating Health promotion with and for Older People - eHealth

Conditions studied

• Frailty — all drugs for Frailty →
• Old Age — all drugs for Old Age →

Sponsor

Göteborg University

Who can join

75 and older, any sex, with Frailty or Old Age. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

The Integrating Health promotion with and for Older People eHealth (IHOPe) project is expected to contribute vital knowledge on how older peoples capabilities and societal resources can be used in a more efficient way to promote health, self-management and enhance teamwork in partnership.The aim is to describe and evaluate this person-centered e-support intervention that promotes a sustainable partnership between community-dwelling frail older people and health and social care professionals. A digital platform, co-created with users and designed to create inclusion of individuals who today are living in a digital alienation, will be used in the health planning. In IHOPe frail older people will be able to identify their potential health issues but also their resources together with team partners from health- and social care, family or societal representatives. The intervention consists of person-centered phone calls with a health care professional as well as access to a digital platform that is accessible to the old person and invited team-partners. The project includes a randomized controlled trial, a process evaluation and a health economic evaluation. People 75 years or older screened as frail will be included. Also, in the process evaluation team-partners using the digital platform will be included. Specifically, this project is expected to reduce hospitalizations, result in improved or retained self-efficacy whilst being cost effective. Additionally, the project is expected to enhance frail older peoples opportunities to participate as an equal partner in their contacts with health and social services.

Publications & conference data

3 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Person-Centred Care: State-of-the-Art and Future Perspectives.
   Gyllensten H, Cederberg M, Alsén S, Blanck E, et al · · 2025 · cited 5× · PMID 40214949 · DOI 10.1007/s11897-025-00702-3
2. Integrating health promotion with and for older people - eHealth (IHOPe) - evaluating remote integrated person-centred care : Protocol of a randomised controlled trial with effectiveness, health economic, and process evaluation.
   Ebrahimi Z, Barenfeld E, Gyllensten H, Olaya-Contreras P, et al · · 2023 · cited 2× · PMID 36973667 · DOI 10.1186/s12877-023-03866-6
3. Experiences of a remote, person-centred intervention in older persons living with frailty - a qualitative study.
   Ebrahimi Z, Olaya-Contreras P, Goudarzi M, Ekman I. · · 2025 · PMID 41094400 · DOI 10.1186/s12877-025-06509-0