Virtual Senior Center
VSC
Achieving Digital Equity for Health Improvement in a Virtual Senior Center
2 other identifiers
interventional
650
1 country
1
Brief Summary
In a 3-group trial with randomization and follow-up for 12 months, we will compare use of the VSC as well as health and quality of life outcomes among 650 older adults in St. Louis who receive either: (1) home delivered meals AND a GrandPad; (2) home-delivered meals but no GrandPad for 6 months; and (3) in person meals at senior center but no GrandPad.
Trial Health
Trial Health Score
Automated assessment based on enrollment pace, timeline, and geographic reach
participants targeted
Target at P75+ for not_applicable
Started Apr 2025
1 active site
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Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
First Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
April 13, 2025
CompletedStudy Start
First participant enrolled
April 23, 2025
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
April 27, 2025
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
December 1, 2026
ExpectedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
January 1, 2027
July 17, 2025
April 1, 2025
1.6 years
April 13, 2025
July 14, 2025
Conditions
Keywords
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (1)
The Social Isolation Scale in Older Adults (Nicholson et al., 2020; The Gerontologist)
This 6-item questionnaire measures the extent to which an individual feels socially unconnected, using 2 related constructs (3 items per construct): quantity of social contacts and sense of relationship. The response options for social contacts ranges from 1 (none) to 5 (6 or more) and the sense of relationship ranges from 1(strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree). The possible summed scores range from 6 to 30, with higher scores indicating less social isolation.
12 month
Secondary Outcomes (1)
Digital Social Participation (Anderberg et al., 2021; JMIR)
12 month
Study Arms (3)
GrandPad1
EXPERIMENTALThis group will receive a GrandPad right away after they complete the baseline survey
GrandPad2 - 6mo
OTHERDelayed interventional. This group will receive a GrandPad after 6 months.
Congregate
ACTIVE COMPARATORThis group will not receive a GrandPad but will get access to the Virtual Senior Center
Interventions
The Virtual Senior Center engages older adults in programs and services online with the help of a GrandPad.
Participants will be given information to access the website when they are able from their own phone, tablet, or computer.
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if:
- Current Home-delivered meal client with Aging Ahead
You may not qualify if:
- Under age 65
Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.
Sponsors & Collaborators
Study Sites (1)
Washington University
St Louis, Missouri, 63101, United States
Study Officials
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Matthew Kreuter, PhD, MPH
Washington University School of Medicine
Study Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Phase
- not applicable
- Allocation
- RANDOMIZED
- Masking
- NONE
- Masking Details
- Though participants and investigators won't know condition of the randomized groups upon enrollment, they will know when they receive the GrandPad. The 3rd group will not be masked at any point.
- Purpose
- OTHER
- Intervention Model
- SINGLE GROUP
- Sponsor Type
- OTHER
- Responsible Party
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
- PI Title
- Kahn Family Professor
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
April 13, 2025
First Posted
April 27, 2025
Study Start
April 23, 2025
Primary Completion (Estimated)
December 1, 2026
Study Completion (Estimated)
January 1, 2027
Last Updated
July 17, 2025
Record last verified: 2025-04
Data Sharing
- IPD Sharing
- Will share
- Shared Documents
- ANALYTIC CODE
- Time Frame
- 3/31/28 - indefinitely
- Access Criteria
- Users must register with the repository and agree to the License specified for the project. This license will allow users to adapt and build upon the materials in any format for noncommercial purposes only and so long as attribution is given to the original creators and grant funding. Any adapted or new data formats and accompanying descriptions will also need to be publicly available under identical terms as the original. Additionally, the license will protect study participants by limiting data use to scientific research and aggregate statistical reporting, prohibit attempts to identify study participants, and require immediate reporting of any identification of study participant's identity. Data users also agree not to share or redistribute any data downloads.
The raw survey response data including dates collected, as well as participant ID codes generated for this study will be shared in order to link the five waves of survey data as well as documentation of participation. All respondent identifiers (e.g., names, addresses) will be removed before sharing. Final de-identified intervention data and Common Survey 4 data will be shared with the CEAL (community engagement Alliance) Technical Assistance Team. Other CEAL researchers will be allowed to request common survey data. We will share all publicly accessible files on WashU Research Data, an institutional repository managed by the Washington University in St. Louis Libraries that uses a cloud-based hosted repository service called TIND as its platform. TIND is based on the open-source Invenio software developed at the research institute CERN to manage its own scholarly output. TIND uses an OAIS-compliant approach to preservation, with redundancy backup, conversion to archival file format