Eligibility Module
The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.
Eligibility Module path is as follows:
Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module
Eligibility Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-25 @ 1:45 AM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-25 @ 1:45 AM
NCT ID:
NCT02369094
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
* Elderly:
1. Age: over 65 years old;
2. Gender: male or female;
3. Currently is a client served by the identified centers of YCHSS;
4. Demonstrate frailty : score 5 or more in the Tilburg Frailty Indicator (TFI );
5. Able to enroll in patient-caregiver dyad (i.e. have a capable designated caregiver enroll in the trial). The caregiver is preferred to be a family member, but could also be a close friend or helper, as long as the designated person spends time regularly with the frail elderly;
6. Physically fit to sit on a normal chair for 15-20 mins for acupressure treatment;
7. Cognitively competent to understand the instruction from the practitioner and participate actively in the control group activity (resembling other art and craft activities offered by center);
8. Cognitively competent to sign the consent form: score 6 or more in Abbreviated Mental Test (AMT, Hong Kong Version);
9. Signed the Patient/Subject Consent Form for this study.
Caregiver:
1. Family member, paid/informal helper or friend of the qualified elderly who will meet with the elderly on a weekly basis;
2. Committed to learn the acupressure protocol and practice the protocol on the elderly twice a week, during the 12-weeks study period, and support the control group activities (if applicable);
3. Cognitively competent to sign the consent form (for caregiver age 65 or above): score 6 or more in Abbreviated Mental Test (AMT, Hong Kong Version,);
4. Signed the Patient/Subject Consent Form for this study.
Exclusion Criteria:
* Elderly in the following situation will be excluded from the study:
1. Who is currently receiving acupressure as a regular therapy;
2. Who is decision impaired and unfit to sign the consent form;
3. Who is suffering from one of the related contraindications for acupressure ( including open sores; undiagnosed rashes; high fever; hypertensive emergence; sore and enlarged lymph nodes; the site of an injury, surgery or injection; burn wounds; skin ulcers and eczema);
4. Who is unable to comply to the set treatment schedule (20% non compliance is allowed).
Caregiver in the following situation will be excluded from the study:
1. Who do not complete the training or incapable to reach a set standard of performing the acupressure protocol;
2. Who is decision impaired and unfit to sign the consent form.
Healthy Volunteers:
False
Sex:
ALL
Minimum Age:
65 Years
Study:
NCT02369094
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT02369094