Advice on welfare rights for disadvantaged older people recruited via primary health care
ISRCTN | ISRCTN37380518 |
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DOI | https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN37380518 |
Secondary identifying numbers | 11415 |
- Submission date
- 14/02/2012
- Registration date
- 14/02/2012
- Last edited
- 09/04/2019
- Recruitment status
- No longer recruiting
- Overall study status
- Completed
- Condition category
- Other
Prospectively registered
Protocol
Statistical analysis plan
Results
Individual participant data
Plain English Summary
Not provided at time of registration
Contact information
Dr Katie Haighton
Scientific
Scientific
Newcastle University
Institute of Public Health
Richardson Road
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE2 4AX
United Kingdom
katie.haighton@newcastle.ac.uk |
Study information
Study design | Randomised interventional trial |
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Primary study design | Interventional |
Secondary study design | Randomised controlled trial |
Study setting(s) | Hospital |
Study type | Quality of life |
Participant information sheet | Not available in web format, please use the contact details below to request a patient information sheet |
Scientific title | Advice on welfare rights for disadvantaged older people recruited via primary health care |
Study hypothesis | Older people in poor health are more likely to need extra money, aids and adaptations to allow them to stay in their homes, yet many do not claim the benefits to which they are entitled. This study will evaluate the effects on health and well-being of a welfare rights advice service provided by social services departments in North East England for low income older people, who we will identify from general practices. More details can be found at http://www.phr.nihr.ac.uk/funded_projects/09_3009_02.asp |
Ethics approval(s) | NHS National Research Ethics Service NRES Committee South West - Exeter, ref: 11/SW/0260 |
Condition | Primary Care Research Network for England |
Intervention | 750 older people who volunteer to take part will be assigned, by chance, to one of two groups. The 375 older people in one group will be given an appointment with a welfare rights advisor within 2 weeks in their own home, during which they will receive a full benefit assessment and help with claiming benefits and other entitlements. Advisors will keep in touch with them until they no longer need help. The 375 older people in the other group will receive exactly the same help and advice 24 months later and receive usual care in the meantime. Older people in both groups will be interviewed at the outset and after 24 months to find out whether the service has had beneficial or other effects and whether it is acceptable. We will also assess whether the service offers good value for money and is acceptable to professionals. Older people in both groups will be free to seek advice independently or to leave the study at any time. Wait list control, 'Usual care', including voluntary access to available welfare rights services until 24 months follow up, when the trial intervention will be offered. Welfare advice, Welfare advice consultations and active assistance with benefit claims delivered in participants' own homes by a trained welfare rights advisor (WRA) |
Intervention type | Other |
Primary outcome measure | Quality of life (CASP 19) measured at baseline, 12 months, 24 months |
Secondary outcome measures | 1. Health status (Euroqol EQ5D) 2. Functional ability (ADLs/IADLs) 3. Independence (living independently, with carer support, in own home or a relations, care home or hospital) 4. Social support/participation (Social Support Questionnaire) 5. Depression (PHQ-9) 6. Mortality 7. Key health related behaviours (diet, physical activity, alcohol, smoking) 8. Perceived financial well-being (Affordability Index) 9. Fuel poverty (achievement of household temperature sufficient to maintain health for expenditure of <10% of household income). |
Overall study start date | 01/12/2011 |
Overall study end date | 31/05/2015 |
Eligibility
Participant type(s) | Patient |
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Age group | Adult |
Sex | Both |
Target number of participants | UK Sample Size: 750 |
Participant inclusion criteria | 1. Volunteer men and women registered with a General Practice in one of 10 social services areas (1 individual per household ) 2. Aged 60 years and over 3. Providing informed consent |
Participant exclusion criteria | 1. Patients resident in nursing homes or hospitals at the time of identification 2. Diagnosed terminal illness 3. By virtue of current physical/mental health cannot participate in the research 4. Lack of fluency in written and spoken English |
Recruitment start date | 01/12/2011 |
Recruitment end date | 31/05/2015 |
Locations
Countries of recruitment
- England
- United Kingdom
Study participating centre
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE2 4AX
United Kingdom
NE2 4AX
United Kingdom
Sponsor information
NHS North of Tyne (UK)
Hospital/treatment centre
Hospital/treatment centre
Bevan House
1 Esh Plaza
Sir Bobby Robson Way
Great Park
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE13 9BA
England
United Kingdom
Phone | +44 (0)191 217 2500 |
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contactus@northoftyne.nhs.uk | |
Website | http://www.northoftyne.nhs.uk/ |
Funders
Funder type
Government
NIHR Public Health Research Programme (UK) ref: PHR 09/3009/02
No information available
Results and Publications
Intention to publish date | 31/12/2018 |
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Individual participant data (IPD) Intention to share | No |
IPD sharing plan summary | Not provided at time of registration |
Publication and dissemination plan | Not provided at time of registration |
IPD sharing plan |
Study outputs
Output type | Details | Date created | Date added | Peer reviewed? | Patient-facing? |
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Protocol article | study protocol | 28/05/2012 | Yes | No | |
Funder report results | results | 01/01/2019 | No | No | |
Results article | results | 10/01/2019 | Yes | No |
Editorial Notes
09/04/2019: Publication references added.
12/10/2018: An intention to publish date has been added.
12/10/2018: No publications found, verifying study status with principal investigator.