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NCT Number: NCT02916758

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Healthy

Age range

55 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Kean University

Union, New Jersey, 07083, United States

About this study

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.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

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

Exclusion criteria

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

Treatment and study plan

Let's Go Community Mobility Program

Other

Four week multi-modal education and experiential program to improve community mobilty

Primary outcomes

  1. 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).

  2. 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).

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Kean University

Other

Registry information

Official study title

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

Important dates

Study start
2015
Primary completion
2016
Study completion
2016
First posted
Sep 27, 2016
Registry last updated
Sep 27, 2016

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This listing is for discovery and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, does not guarantee that a study is recruiting, and does not determine eligibility. Contact the study team and a qualified healthcare professional when considering participation.

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