Table 2.
Characteristics of the Intervention Group and Care-as-Usual Group Regarding Health Profiles, Health Status, Falls and Fractures, Biometric Measures, and Health-Related Behavior at Baseline and 1-Year Follow-Up.
| Intervention group Community Health Consultation Offices N = 403 |
p | Care-as-usual group National Program Elderly Care N = 984 |
p | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baseline N (%) |
1-year follow-up N (%) |
Baseline N (%) |
1-year follow-up N (%) |
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| Health profiles | ⩽.001 | ⩽.001 | ||||
| Vital | 259 (64) | 189 (47) | 585 (59) | 528 (54) | ||
| Psychosocial coping | 120 (30) | 155 (38) | 272 (28) | 264 (27) | ||
| Physical and mobility | 12 (3) | 4 (1) | 56 (6) | 100 (10) | ||
| Multidomain | 12 (3) | 55 (14) | 71 (7) | 92 (9) | ||
| Self-reported health status (N, %) | .19 | .14 | ||||
| Excellent | 9 (2) | 4 (1) | 63 (6) | 42 (4) | ||
| Very good | 32 (8) | 33 (8) | 107 (11) | 106 (11) | ||
| Good | 240 (60) | 266 (66) | 381 (39) | 346 (35) | ||
| Fair | 115 (28) | 93 (23) | 382 (39) | 388 (39) | ||
| Poor | 3 (1) | 5 (1) | 47 (5) | 60 (6) | ||
| Unknown | 4 (1) | 2 (1) | 7 (1) | 45 (5) | ||
| Falls and fractures | ||||||
| Fall previous year | 102 (25) | 103 (26) | .89 | 93 (10) | 84 (9) | .42 |
| Fracture previous year | 69 (17) | 76 (19) | .53 | 128 (13) | 92 (9) | .01 |
| Biometric measures | ||||||
| Hypertensiona | 169 (42) | 157 (39) | .72 | —b | — | — |
| Hyperglycemiac | 193 (48) | 201 (50) | ||||
| Weightd | ||||||
| Underweight | 5 (1) | 4 (1) | — | — | ||
| Normal weight | 123 (31) | 130 (32) | — | — | ||
| Overweight | 275 (68) | 269 (67) | ||||
| Health-related behavior | ||||||
| Hazardous drinkinge | 327 (81) | 322 (80) | .38 | — | — | |
| Current smoking | 49 (12) | 44 (11) | .81 | — | — | |
| Balanced diet | .78 | |||||
| 1-4 days/week | 22 (5) | 16 (4) | — | — | ||
| ⩾5 days/week | 378 (94) | 385 (95) | — | — | ||
| Unknown | 3 (1) | 2 (1) | — | — | ||
| Physical activity | .91 | |||||
| ⩽70 min/week | 247 (61) | 248 (61) | — | — | ||
| 71-149 min/week | 84 (21) | 91 (23) | — | — | ||
| 150 min/week | 53 (13) | 54 (13) | — | — | ||
| Unknown | 19 (5) | 10 (3) | — | — | ||
Note. BMI = body mass index. AUDIT = Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test.
Hypertension: <75 years, systolic blood pressure ⩾ 140 mmHg; 75-80 years, systolic blood pressure ⩾ 160 mmHg; ⩾80 years, systolic blood pressure ⩾ 160 mmHg.
Not applicable because these data were not collected for the care-as-usual group.
Hyperglycemia: fasting or nonfasting ⩾ 6.1 mmol/L.
Underweight: BMI < 19. Overweight <70 years: BMI ⩾ 25 and/or waist circumference (women) = 88 cm or waist circumference (men) = 102 cm; or Overweight ⩾70 years: BMI ⩾ 30 and/or waist circumference (women) = 88 cm or waist circumference (men) = 102 cm.
Hazardous drinking if the total score on the AUDIT alcohol consumption questions was for females ⩾4 and for males ⩾5.