NCT05634239

Senior Health Clinic Study

Status unknown NA Last updated 2 December 2022

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Health Education in Cardiovascular Diseases in 2,500 participants. Status unknown.

Timeline

2 January 2020

Primary endpoint
31 December 2023

31 December 2023

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	University of Turku
Phase	NA
Status	Status unknown
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	na
Design	single group
Masking	none
Primary purpose	prevention
Enrollment	2,500
Start date	2 January 2020
Primary completion	31 December 2023
Estimated completion	31 December 2023
Sites	1 location across Finland

Drugs / interventions tested

• Health Education

Conditions studied

• Cardiovascular Diseases — all drugs for Cardiovascular Diseases →
• Dementia — all drugs for Dementia →
• Frailty — all drugs for Frailty →

Sponsor

University of Turku

Who can join

Adults 75 to 75, any sex, with Cardiovascular Diseases or Dementia. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Turku Senior Health Clinic study The Turku Senior Health Clinic Study was targeted to 75-year-old citizens with an underlying idea that at that age it would be almost the last moment to nudge people towards healthy lifestyle and taking care of their health and functional ability to maintain independent living.

The short-term aims of the Turku Senior Health Clinic Study are to survey health and functional statuses and prevalence of specified risk factors for CVDs, dementia, frailty, and functional decline of 75-year-old independently home-dwelling citizens of the city of Turku. The aims also include assessment the frequency of follow-up treatments needed, and recommendations given for lifestyle changes and evidence-based drug treatment, as well as fulfillment of these recommendations. Also, participants feedback on the Turku Senior Health Clinic will be assessed. In addition, based on the results, recommendation for the content and implementation of preventive health clinic targeted to older people will be provided. The long-term aim of the research project is to assess the effects of the Turku Senior Health Clinic on the need of institutional care and home care as well as the cost-effectiveness of the clinic during the 10-year follow-up. For this purpose, participants of the Senior Health Clinic Study will be compared to that of non-participants and earlier cohorts of 75-year-olds in terms of the use of home care and institutional care.

Publications & conference data

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

1. Factors contributing to self-rated health in community-dwelling independent 75-year-old Finns: a population-based cross-sectional cohort study.
   Salminen M, Luther-Tontasse E, Koskenniemi J, Vahlberg T, et al · · 2025 · cited 4× · PMID 40025413 · DOI 10.1186/s12877-025-05794-z
2. Senior Health Clinic for 75-year-old home-dwelling Finns - study design, clinic protocol and non-response analysis.
   Salminen M, Stenholm S, Koskenniemi J, Korhonen P, et al · · 2023 · cited 3× · PMID 36864394 · DOI 10.1186/s12913-023-09199-9