First Steps towards Evidence-Based Preventive Home Visits: Experiences Gathered in a Swedish Municipality

Table 3

Number of identified health risks within each health area in the PHV protocol in the pilot study, in total and according to ADL-level group, 𝑁=16.

Health area	Independent; in ADL,; 𝑛=11	Dependent; in I-ADL,; 𝑛=3	Independent; in P-ADL,; 𝑛=14^a	Dependent; in P-and; I-ADL,; 𝑛=2	Total sample,; 𝑁=16
ADL	1	1	2	2	4
Activities/interests	1	1	2	2	4
Social contacts	1	0	1	0	1
Pain	3	3	6	2	8
Depression	0	0	0	1	1
Falls	3	3	6	2	8
Cognition	0	0	0	1	1
Medication	1	2	3	1	4
Food/diet	0	1	1	0	1
Physical capacity*	4/9	0	4	0/1	4/13
Vision	1	1	2	0	2
Hearing	6	2	8	2	10
Summa	21	14	35	13	48

P-ADL = personal activities of daily living.
I-ADL = instrumental activities of daily living.
*The last figure states the total number of persons within the ADL-level group that performed physical tests, since not all persons did.
^aThe groups independent in ADL and dependent in I-ADL merged comprising all persons independent in P-ADL.