title: Effectiveness of educational nursing home visits on quality of life, functional status and care dependency in older adults with mobility impairments: a randomized controlled trial.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Facilitating and maintaining functional status (FS) and quality of life (QoL) and avoiding care dependency (CD) are and will increasingly become major tasks of nursing. Educational nursing home visits may have positive effects on FS and QoL in older adults. The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of educational home visits on FS, QoL and CD in older adults with mobility impairments.
  
  
  METHODS
  We performed a randomized controlled trial. The study was conducted in the living environments of 123 participants with functional impairments living in Hamburg, Germany. The intervention group received an additional nursing education intervention on mobility and QoL; the control group received care as usual. Data were collected from August 2011 to December 2012 at baseline, 6 months and 12 months of follow-up. The main outcomes were FS (Barthel Index), QoL (WHOQOL-BREF) and CD (Care Dependency Scale). Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and generalized linear models.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In total, 113 participants (57 in the intervention and 56 in the control group) were included in the study. The intervention had no statistical significant effect on FS, QoL and CD.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The intervention did not show the benefits that we assumed. Further studies on the effects of educational nursing interventions should be performed using different concepts and rigorous research methods.
authors.affiliation: Department 7: Health Care Research, Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research (IPP), University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany.
authors.forename: Arne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Buss
authors.affiliation: Department 7: Health Care Research, Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research (IPP), University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany.
authors.forename: Karin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wolf-Ostermann
authors.affiliation: Charité Universitätsmedizin, Institute of Health and Nursing Science, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Theo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Dassen
authors.affiliation: Charité Universitätsmedizin, Institute of Health and Nursing Science, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Nils
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Lahmann
authors.affiliation: Department 11, Applied Social Sciences, University of Applied Sciences Munich, Munich, Germany.
authors.forename: Steve
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Strupeit
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003071:Cognition; D003863:Depression / Q000453:epidemiology; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006304:Health Status; D006707:Homes for the Aged / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006792:House Calls; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D051346:Mobility Limitation; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000458:organization & administration*; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities / Q000458:organization & administration; D011788:Quality of Life; D020377:Self Efficacy
keywords: education; home visits; nursing; older people; physical skills; quality of life