Older People, New Needs, and Possible Solutions. A Pilot Study on Peer-to-peer Digital Education

NCT06510959 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 2021-0897
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 32
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

"Older people, new needs, and possible solutions: A pilot study on peer-to-peer digital education" aims to create a digital literacy protocol targeted specifically to older people, providing them with the digital skills needed to age healthily and actively in a changing social context. Specifically, the main goal is to pilot (by designing, implementing, and evaluating) a peer-to-peer digital literacy course, whereby older educators teach less digitally savvy older people how to use smartphone daily utility apps, such as e-Gov, home banking, etc. To evaluate the effect of the intervention on participants, smartphone usage patterns are measured before, during, and after the course. Then, the impact of the course on participants' perception of well-being is assessed as well.

Conditions

Well-Being, Psychological; Digital Skills

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Smartphone usage patterns

  To evaluate changes in smartphone usage patterns, the investigators collect smartphone usage data for about four months: (one month) before the start of the course, during the course attendance, and (one month) after the course has ended through the app Stay Free - Screen Time. This app collects the categories of the apps that participants used during the monitoring period, the exact time (day, hour, minutes) the apps started/stopped to be used, and the duration (in seconds) of use of each apps' category. The category of the apps and the duration of use, as well as the day in which they have been used, will be combined to study participants' using habits.

  Four months (feb 24 - jun 24)

• Perception of wellbeing

  To evaluate the impact of the peer-to-peer digital education course on participants' wellbeing, the investigators will adopt a quasi-experiment approach, inviting course participants to fill in a short online self-completed questionnaire during the first and last class of the course. The investigators will collect the following five types of measures: current use of and competence on digital device use, attitudes towards technology, life satisfaction, happiness and wellbeing, demographic and socio-economic characteristics, health status.

  Two measurements: baseline, pre-intervention and immediately after the intervention

Study Arms (1)

Digital course

OTHER

10-lesson weekly course taught by a peer on the use of smartphones and daily utility apps.

Other: Digital course

Interventions

Digital course OTHER

The course aims to enhance participants' digital skills concerning the use of smartphones, specifically focusing on daily utility apps such as email apps, eGov apps, mobility apps, etc. The course is structured into the following ten 90-minute weekly lessons.

Digital course

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• years old or older
• personal smartphone

You may not qualify if:

• N/A

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Milano Bicocca: lead
• University of Pavia: collaborator
• University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland: collaborator
• Catholic University, Italy: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

University of Milan - Bicocca

Milan, 20126, Italy

Location

Related Links

• Website of the research group

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Psychological Well-Being

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Personal Satisfaction; Behavior

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: June 5, 2024
• First Posted: July 19, 2024
• Study Start: February 8, 2024
• Primary Completion: June 6, 2024
• Study Completion: July 5, 2024
• Last Updated: July 19, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-07

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will share
• Shared Documents: STUDY PROTOCOL, SAP

Locations

IT (1)