Publications by authors named "K Soghikian"
Objective: To evaluate the effect of a low-intensity behavioral therapy program on urinary incontinence in older women.
Methods: A randomized clinical trial for community-dwelling women at least 55 years reporting at least one urinary incontinent episode per week was conducted. Women were randomly assigned to a behavioral therapy group (n = 77) or a control group (n = 75).
Randomized trial of case-finding for depression in elderly primary care patients.
J Gen Intern Med
May 2000
Objective: To determine the effect of case-finding for depression on frequency of depression diagnoses, prescriptions for antidepressant medications, prevalence of depression, and health care utilization during 2 years of follow-up in elderly primary care patients.
Design: Randomized controlled trial.
Setting: Thirteen primary care medical clinics at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, an HMO in Oakland, Calif, were randomly assigned to intervention conditions (7 clinics) or control conditions (6 clinics).
Background: Although comprehensive geriatric assessment has been found to improve health and function and decrease hospital admissions, most such programs are staff-intensive and take many hours or even days. The Senior Team Assessment and Referral Program (STAR) was developed to address these two issues by using a short but comprehensive outpatient health appraisal that required only a few health professionals to complete.
Methods: Six hundred forty-nine Kaiser Permanente health plan members aged 65 years or older who received their health care at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, San Jose, Calif, were randomly selected during the first 12 months of the study and invited by mail to participate in STAR.
Background: This study examined health-risk behaviors and preventive health care activities among caregivers for older adults.
Methods: Survey questionnaires regarding health practices were completed by 272 caregivers and 917 noncaregivers selected through a stratified random sample of persons age 50 or older who were members of the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan in Northern California.
Results: Controlling for age, gender, race, education, marital status, and income level, caregivers were more likely than noncaregivers to eat breakfast daily, get flu shots, and receive pneumonia vaccines.
Study Objective: To determine the relationship between alcohol-related emergency department visits and alcohol-related outpatient visits and the extent of identification and referral of these ED patients for alcohol treatment.
Methods: A representative sample of ED patients in three medical centers of a large northern California health maintenance organization were interviewed and given breath alcohol tests, and their medical records were reviewed. An alcohol-related ED visit was defined as a visit meeting one or more of the following criteria: positive breath alcohol test result (.