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Avlund, K., Vass, M., & Hendriksen, C. (2007). Education of preventive home visitors: the effects on change in tiredness in daily activities. European journal of ageing, 4(3), 125-131. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-007-0058-0
Avlund, K, et al. "Education of preventive home visitors: the effects on change in tiredness in daily activities." European journal of ageing vol. 4,3 (2007): 125-131. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-007-0058-0
Avlund K, Vass M, Hendriksen C. Education of preventive home visitors: the effects on change in tiredness in daily activities. Eur J Ageing. 2007 Aug 15;4(3):125-131. doi: 10.1007/s10433-007-0058-0. eCollection 2007 Sep. PMID: 28794781; PMCID: PMC5546279.
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Eur J Ageing. 2007 Aug 15;4(3):125-131. doi: 10.1007/s10433-007-0058-0. eCollection 2007 Sep.

Education of preventive home visitors: the effects on change in tiredness in daily activities.

European journal of ageing

K Avlund, M Vass, C Hendriksen

Affiliations

  1. Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark.
  2. Department of General Practice and Central Research Unit for General Practice, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

PMID: 28794781 PMCID: PMC5546279 DOI: 10.1007/s10433-007-0058-0

Abstract

The objective was to investigate whether a 3-year educational intervention towards primary health care professionals had effect on change in tiredness in daily activities during a 3-year intervention period in non-disabled older adults. The design was a controlled 3-year intervention study in 34 Danish municipalities with randomization and intervention at municipality level. The 17 intervention municipality visitors received regular education and general practitioners were introduced to a short assessment program. The effect was measured among old non-disabled individuals living in the municipalities by a validated scale on tiredness in daily activities at baseline and at the end of the intervention period. In total 2,515, 75- and 80-year-old men and women participated in all parts of the present study. Eighty-year-old non-disabled men and women who lived in the control municipalities had larger odds ratios of sustained tiredness during the 3-year intervention period compared with 80-year-olds living in intervention municipalities where both GPs and home visitors participated in the educational programme (OR = 3.48; 95% CI 1.51-8.00) and in intervention municipalities where only the home visitors (OR = 2.63; 95% CI 0.97-7.12) were educated. The intervention had no effect on stability and change in tiredness among the 75-year-old men and women. A brief, feasible educational intervention for primary care professionals has beneficial effect on changes in feelings of tiredness in non-disabled 80-year-old men and women.

Keywords: Community intervention; Education; Preventive home visits; Tiredness

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