| Title |
Warm homes for older people: aims and methods of a randomised community-based trial for people with COPD
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Public Health, February 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-13-176 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Helen Viggers, Philippa Howden-Chapman, Tristram Ingham, Ralph Chapman, Gina Pene, Cheryl Davies, Ann Currie, Nevil Pierse, Helen Wilson, Jane Zhang, Michael Baker, Julian Crane |
| Abstract |
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is of increasing importance with about one in four people estimated to be diagnosed with COPD during their lifetime. None of the existing medications for COPD has been shown to have much effect on the long-term decline in lung function and there have been few recent pharmacotherapeutic advances. Identifying preventive interventions that can reduce the frequency and severity of exacerbations could have important public health benefits. The Warm Homes for Elder New Zealanders study is a community-based trial, designed to test whether a NZ$500 electricity voucher paid into the electricity account of older people with COPD, with the expressed aim of enabling them to keep their homes warm, results in reduced exacerbations and hospitalisation rates. It will also examine whether these subsidies are cost-beneficial. |
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| Netherlands | 1 | 20% |
| United States | 1 | 20% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 20% |
| Canada | 1 | 20% |
| Unknown | 1 | 20% |
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| Members of the public | 3 | 60% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 40% |
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| United Kingdom | 6 | 5% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 126 | 95% |
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| Student > Master | 26 | 20% |
| Researcher | 16 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 15 | 11% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 8 | 6% |
| Other | 7 | 5% |
| Other | 25 | 19% |
| Unknown | 36 | 27% |
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| Medicine and Dentistry | 36 | 27% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 14 | 11% |
| Social Sciences | 7 | 5% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 5 | 4% |
| Psychology | 5 | 4% |
| Other | 26 | 20% |
| Unknown | 40 | 30% |
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