NCT05273502

Earlier Elderly People in Rural Areas

Status unknown NA Last updated 31 March 2022

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Citizen Science intervention in Health Behavior in 176 participants. Status unknown.

Timeline

1 March 2022

Primary endpoint
15 May 2022

30 December 2023

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	University Rovira i Virgili
Phase	NA
Status	Status unknown
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	single
Primary purpose	prevention
Enrollment	176
Start date	1 March 2022
Primary completion	15 May 2022
Estimated completion	30 December 2023
Sites	1 location across Spain

Drugs / interventions tested

• Citizen Science intervention

Conditions studied

• Health Behavior — all drugs for Health Behavior →
• Sarcopenia — all drugs for Sarcopenia →
• Nutrition — all drugs for Nutrition →
• Sleep — all drugs for Sleep →

Sponsor

University Rovira i Virgili

Who can join

Adults 60 to 74, any sex, with Health Behavior or Sarcopenia. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Social innovation in aging needs to bring new ideas and services to meet new social and welfare needs identified in recent years. In our environment, people ≥60 years old accounted for 20% -24% of the population in 2015, and it is expected to increase to ≥30% by 2050. Older people living in rural areas have been severely affected by confinement, and new needs are being generated. To better understand the needs, an innovative element of this project is to involve the elderly-young people (60-74 years) from rural areas in the generation of solutions, which will make these solutions especially adapted to their needs. It also aims to study the effectiveness of a health education intervention based on participatory research, where young seniors co-create and implement the intervention among their peers, and focused on improving lifestyles, to prevent or to improve sarcopenia.

The objectives of this project are: To characterize the elderly (60 to 74 years) who live independently in rural areas of the province of Tarragona, to actively involve them, through a process of participatory research to generate solutions.

To achieve this goal, it is proposed to make a diagnosis of their health status (lifestyles, risk of malnutrition and sarcopenia), and conduct group interviews (focus groups) including earlier elderly people from rural areas. In addition, participants will receive the intervention co-created by themselves, and the effectiveness of the intervention created will be evaluated.

Publications & conference data

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

1. Health status, lifestyle and quality of life in older adults of rural and urban areas of Tarragona province (Catalonia, Spain): a cross-sectional descriptive study.
   Jiménez-Ten Hoevel C, Queral J, Besora-Moreno M, Tarro L, et al · · 2025 · cited 4× · PMID 40050828 · DOI 10.1186/s12889-025-22045-3
2. Effects of participatory research-based intervention on the improvement of lifestyles and sarcopenic parameters in young-old adults of rural areas of Tarragona province (Catalonia, Spain): A Cluster randomized, parallel, controlled study.
   Queral J, Sepúlveda C, Jiménez-Ten Hoevel C, Tarro L, et al · · 2025 · PMID 40651208 · DOI 10.1016/j.gerinurse.2025.103478