Promoting Community Mobility for Wellness in Older Adults in Urban Environments

NCT02916758 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: Kean-1001
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 52
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

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.

Conditions

Healthy

Keywords

older adults; community mobility; wellness; isolation

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (5)

• Change in Impact on Participation and Autonomy Questionnaire-Autonomy Outdoors Sub scale

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

Study Arms (1)

Let's Go Community Mobility Program

EXPERIMENTAL

Participation in 4 week program

Other: Let's Go Community Mobility Program

Interventions

Let's Go Community Mobility Program OTHER

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

Let's Go Community Mobility Program

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 55 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• 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.

You may not qualify if:

• 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.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Kean University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Kean University

Union, New Jersey, 07083, United States

Location

Related Publications (2)

• Mulry, C. M. & Piersol, C. V. (2014). The Let's Go program for community participation: A feasibility study. Physical & Occupational Therapy in Geriatrics, 32(3). doi:10.3109/02703181.2014.932316

  BACKGROUND

• Mulry CM, Papetti C, De Martinis J, Ravinsky M. Facilitating Wellness in Urban-Dwelling, Low-Income Older Adults Through Community Mobility: A Mixed-Methods Study. Am J Occup Ther. 2017 Jul/Aug;71(4):7104190030p1-7104190030p7. doi: 10.5014/ajot.2017.025494.

  PMID: 28661382 DERIVED

Study Officials

• Claire M Mulry

  Kean University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Assistant Professor

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: September 22, 2016
• First Posted: September 27, 2016
• Study Start: June 1, 2015
• Primary Completion: February 1, 2016
• Study Completion: February 1, 2016
• Last Updated: September 27, 2016

Record last verified: 2016-09

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will share

Locations

US (1)