Promoting Community Mobility for Wellness in Older Adults in Urban Environments

September 23, 2016 updated by: Claire M. Mulry, OTD, OTR, CAPS, Kean University

Let's Go: Promoting Community Mobility for Wellness in Older Adults in Urban Environments

This study evaluates the program outcomes of the Let's Go program. The standardized community mobility program employs multi-modal group and individual sessions to facilitate wellness in older adults.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

This study examines the outcomes of Let's Go, a standardized community mobility program which employs group and individual sessions of education, peer interaction, engagement in meaningful occupations, and self-reflections to help individuals understand the importance of community participation and its relationship to well-being. Program outcomes explored include increased confidence in community mobility, increased autonomy outdoors, social life and relationships, frequency of community trips, and decreased social isolation.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

52

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United States
    • New Jersey
      • Union, New Jersey, United States, 07083
        • Kean University

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

55 years and older (ADULT, OLDER_ADULT)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  1. Community dwelling individual
  2. Report desire to learn about community mobility options
  3. Able to participate in group education sessions (
  4. Able to attend during a 45 minute session
  5. Independent mobility in community with or without an assistive device.

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Individual lives in Long Term Care facility
  2. Aphasia
  3. Individual has impaired cognition demonstrated by MoCA exam score ≤ 17
  4. Individual is unable to stay awake for entire group session
  5. Individual acts out (yelling, monopolizes, motor restlessness or agitation) in group setting.

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: PREVENTION
  • Allocation: NA
  • Interventional Model: SINGLE_GROUP
  • Masking: NONE

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
EXPERIMENTAL: Let's Go Community Mobility Program
Participation in 4 week program
Other: Let's Go Community Mobility Program
Four week multi-modal education and experiential program to improve community mobilty

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Change in Impact on Participation and Autonomy Questionnaire-Autonomy Outdoors Sub scale
Time Frame: Baseline, 4 weeks (program end), 6 month follow up
The IPAQ measures an individual's perception of the impact of chronic disability on participation, has good responsiveness and its content, construct, and discriminant validity as well as internal consistency are deemed adequate and verified by Rasch analysis (Magasi & Post, 2010). The content validity of the autonomy outdoors subscale (α = .81) and social life and relationships scale (α = .86) are strong. Internal reliability of the IPAQ on all subscales is high (all Cronbach's alphas >0.8). The individual items on the AO subscale have a test-retest reliability ranging from .69 to .84 and those on the SL subscale ranged from Kw = .71 to .77 (Cardol et al., 1999, Sibley et al., 2006).
Baseline, 4 weeks (program end), 6 month follow up
Change in Impact on Participation and Autonomy Questionnaire- Social Life and Relationships Sub scale
Time Frame: Baseline, 4 weeks (program end), 6 month follow up
The IPAQ measures an individual's perception of the impact of chronic disability on participation, has good responsiveness and its content, construct, and discriminant validity as well as internal consistency are deemed adequate and verified by Rasch analysis (Magasi & Post, 2010). The content validity of the autonomy outdoors subscale (α = .81) and social life and relationships scale (α = .86) are strong. Internal reliability of the IPAQ on all subscales is high (all Cronbach's alphas >0.8). The individual items on the AO subscale have a test-retest reliability ranging from .69 to .84 and those on the SL subscale ranged from Kw = .71 to .77 (Cardol et al., 1999, Sibley et al., 2006).
Baseline, 4 weeks (program end), 6 month follow up
Change in Frequency of community trips per month
Time Frame: Baseline, 4 weeks (program end), 6 month follow up
A Participant Survey was developed by the Primary Investigator in which participants self reported the frequency of community trips in the past 30 days
Baseline, 4 weeks (program end), 6 month follow up
Change in Confidence in community mobility
Time Frame: Baseline, 4 weeks (program end), 6 month follow up
A Participant Survey was developed by the Primary Investigator in which participants self reported their confidence in community mobility on a Likert Scale
Baseline, 4 weeks (program end), 6 month follow up
Change in Self report of feelings of isolation
Time Frame: Baseline, 4 weeks (program end), 6 month follow up
A Participant Survey was developed by the Primary Investigator in which participants self reported their feeling of isolation on a Likert Scale
Baseline, 4 weeks (program end), 6 month follow up

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Kean University

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Claire M Mulry, Kean University

Publications and helpful links

The person responsible for entering information about the study voluntarily provides these publications. These may be about anything related to the study.

General Publications

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start

June 1, 2015

Primary Completion (ACTUAL)

February 1, 2016

Study Completion (ACTUAL)

February 1, 2016

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

September 22, 2016

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

September 23, 2016

First Posted (ESTIMATE)

September 27, 2016

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (ESTIMATE)

September 27, 2016

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

September 23, 2016

Last Verified

September 1, 2016

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Other Study ID Numbers

  • Kean-1001

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

YES

IPD Plan Description

Data files will be uploaded for review

Study Data/Documents

  1. Individual Participant Data Set
    Information comments: Please contact cmulry@kean.edu to request the data set

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