Successful knowledge translation intervention in long-term care: final results from the vitamin D and osteoporosis study (ViDOS) pilot cluster randomized controlled trial.

What Was Tested

The paper reports a study of Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc, published as a randomized controlled trial.

Few studies have systematically examined whether knowledge translation (KT) strategies can be successfully implemented within the long-term care (LTC) setting.

Who Took Part

By PubMed's age tags, the people studied were older adults and people over 80, both men and women.

How the Study Was Run

The design is described as randomized and pilot.

Random assignment meant chance, not the researchers, decided who got Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc and who got the comparison, which limits bias.

It is described as a pilot, a small early test of whether a larger Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc study would be practical.

The researchers conducted a pilot, cluster randomized controlled trial in 40 LTC homes (21 control; 19 intervention) in Ontario, Canada.

Control homes did not receive any additional intervention.

Data were analyzed using the generalized estimating equations technique accounting for clustering within the LTC homes.

What Was Measured

The subject headings attached to it are Accidental Falls, Bone Density Conservation Agents, Calcium, Cooperative Behavior, Dietary Supplements, Drug Prescriptions and Education, Medical, Continuing.

What This Means in Plain Language

The paper is a randomized and pilot study of Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc.

The abstract goes on to report its results in about 4 sentences; this page does not restate them, so read the paper for the findings and their limits.

The publication is from 2015 (Trials), a journal based in England.

More context: the Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc compound page, all human trials.