Student-delivered Telehealth Program for COVID-19 Education and Health Promotion

NCT04492527 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: COACH
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 75
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to ensure effective health management among community-living older adults during unprecedented times, such as the current COVID-19 pandemic.

Conditions

Chronic Disease; Aging; Aging Problems; Health Behavior; Multiple Chronic Conditions; Chronic Illness; Chronic Illnesses, Multiple; Healthy Lifestyle; Healthy Aging; Aging Well; Healthy Life Style; Self-management; Self Care

Keywords

telehealth; prevention; self management; chronic disease; aging; healthy lifestyle

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Change from baseline: Health Directed Behaviour at 2 months

  Health Education Impact Questionnaire (HeiQ) that evaluates health directed behaviour for chronic disease management.

  Baseline, Post-intervention (immediately after the 2-month intervention)

Secondary Outcomes (5)

• Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale

  Baseline, Post-intervention (immediately after the 2-month intervention)

• Medical Outcomes Study (MOS): Social Support Survey

  Baseline, Post-intervention (immediately after the 2-month session)

• Medical Outcomes Study (MOS): Short Form-36

  Baseline, Post-intervention (immediately after the 2-month session)

• Self-Rated Abilities for Health Practices Scale

  Baseline, Post-intervention (immediately after the 2-month session)

• Self-management

  Baseline, Post-intervention (immediately after the 2-month session)

Study Arms (1)

Telehealth coaching sessions

EXPERIMENTAL

Receives the Telehealth-delivered coaching sessions.

Behavioral: Telehealth coaching sessions

Interventions

Telehealth coaching sessions BEHAVIORAL

Participants will be receiving a 2-month coaching session intervention that will be delivered via telephone or video-conferencing. Each of the 6 sessions will be 30-45minutes long and one-on-one with a student coach. In each session, coaches will review the participants' health behaviours and assess their knowledge about behavioural risks factors for chronic diseases and their current behaviours. The coaches will then provide information about the health risks of poor health behaviours, and benefits of change. Health behavioural goals will be established through a collaborative process. The coaches will then assist participants to develop readily achievable action plans that participants will follow in between coaching sessions as a means to realize their health goals. Adherence and modifications to the action plans will be discussed at the follow-up coaching session to promote health accountability.

Telehealth coaching sessions

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 65 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• age 65 years or older
• living within a community in British Columbia
• have access to a telephone or video conferencing program
• able to communicate in English
• have had no previous COVID-19 diagnosis by health professionals
• have cognitive-communicative ability to participate as per clinical judgement
• can provide informed consent

You may not qualify if:

• not medically stable
• are participating in other health promotion programs
• have severe hearing loss

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of British Columbia: lead

Study Sites (1)

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Canada

Location

Related Publications (3)

• Yang MC, Clayton C, Harris D, Pelletier C, Schmidt J, Zwicker JG, Sakakibara BM. Qualitative Experiences of Older Adults Participating in a Student-Delivered Community Outreach TeleheAlth Program for COVID Education and Health Promotion. Health Promot Pract. 2026 Jan 27:15248399251414647. doi: 10.1177/15248399251414647. Online ahead of print.

  PMID: 41593434 DERIVED

• Yang MC, Singh G, Clayton C, Harris D, Sakakibara BM. Experiences of Health Professional Students Delivering a Community-Outreach TeleheAlth Program for COVID Education and Health Promotion to Older Adults. J Med Educ Curric Dev. 2025 May 7;12:23821205251335723. doi: 10.1177/23821205251335723. eCollection 2025 Jan-Dec.

  PMID: 40351783 DERIVED

• Yang MC, Clayton C, Harris D, Pelletier C, Schmidt J, Zwicker JG, Sakakibara BM. Preliminary investigation of the student-delivered Community Outreach teleheAlth program for Covid education and Health promotion (COACH). Fam Pract. 2023 Feb 9;40(1):30-38. doi: 10.1093/fampra/cmac079.

  PMID: 35899784 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Chronic Disease; Health Behavior; Multiple Chronic Conditions

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Disease Attributes; Pathologic Processes; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms; Behavior

Study Officials

• Brodie Sakakibara, PhD

  University of British Columbia

  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: July 28, 2020
• First Posted: July 30, 2020
• Study Start: July 28, 2020
• Primary Completion: April 30, 2021
• Study Completion: June 30, 2021
• Last Updated: August 30, 2021

Record last verified: 2021-08

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

CA (1)