Skip to main content

Table 2 Baseline characteristics of study participants

From: Effects of home visits by home nurses to elderly people with health problems: design of a randomised clinical trial in the Netherlands [ISRCTN92017183]

Characteristic

Intervention group n = 160

Control group n = 170

Age

75.8 (3.7)

75.6 (3.9)

Gender

  

   male

64 (40%)

68 (40%)

   female

96 (60%)

102 (60%)

Composition of household

  

   alone

53 (34%)

61 (36%)

   together

103 (66%)

108 (64%)

Education

  

   primary school

60 (39%)

65 (39%)

   lower/middle professional education

81 (52%)

92 (55%)

   higher professional education

15 (10%)

11 (6%)

Self-rated health*

  

   1–4

62 (39%)

67 (39%)

   5

98 (61%)

103 (61%)

Functional status**

  

   Adl-dependencies

0

73 (46%)

81 (48%)

 

1–11

86 (54%)

89 (52%)

   Iadl-dependencies

0–1

76 (49%)

83 (50%)

 

2–7

79 (51%)

82 (50%)

   Total number of dependencies

0–2

83 (53%)

92 (55%)

 

3–18

75 (47%)

76 (45%)

Health change in previous 3 months

  

   same/better

85 (53%)

82 (48%)

   worse

75 (47%)

88 (52%)

Health affects social participation

  

   often

82 (53%)

87 (51%)

   sometimes

49 (32%)

50 (29%)

   never

24 (16%)

33 (19%)

Contact GP in last 3 months

  

   yes (no is remaining %)

140 (88%)

150 (88%)

Contact specialist in last 3 months

  

   yes (no is remaining %)

108 (69%)

117 (70%)

Hospital admission in last 3 months

  

   yes (no is remaining %)

21 (13%)

24 (14%)

Use of home care

  

   yes (no is remaining %)

64 (40%)

61 (37%)

  1. * Indicated by a report mark on a scale ranging from 1 to 10 points. Participants with a poor health status were included (report mark below 6).
  2. ** Refers to 11 activities of daily living (Adl) and 7 instrumental activities of daily living (Iadl) or housekeeping activities (GARS). Adl / Iadl-dependencies: indicates the number of activities for which the elderly are dependent on others in order to carry out the activity.