Lifestyle Matters: An Occupational Approach Towards Health and Well-being in Later Life

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Mental Health Wellness 1
• Interventions: Behavioral: Lifestyle Matters

• Registration Number: NCT03054311
• Lead Sponsor: University of Sheffield

Brief Summary

Lifestyle Matters is an occupational approach to healthy ageing, which helps older people to get the most out of life. The intervention is based on an American model of health promotion called Lifestyle Redesign. This was found to be highly effective in enhancing the physical and mental health, occupational functioning and life satisfaction of community living older adults in Los Angeles, USA.

Weekly group meetings provide older people with the space, time and opportunity to share their experiences. Through a process of peer exchange and guidance, participants have the opportunity to reflect upon the range of activities that they engage with. They are then helped to begin to understand how these activities might impact on their health and well-being. However this approach alone cannot meet the complex needs of individual older people, and their specific and personal concerns. In recognition of this, the programme also includes monthly individual sessions with one of the group facilitators. The older person in partnership with the facilitator identifies a tailored programme to meet their individual needs, including the means by which they might work towards their personal goals. The individual programme is updated and refreshed in subsequent meetings over the months.

During 2004/5 researchers at Sheffield Hallam University in partnership with other researchers in York and Leeds, and clinical colleagues in Sheffield explored the feasibility of delivering this intervention to older people living in the UK. The project was funded through the Sheffield Health and Social Research Consortium. The summary below is an account of the process and outcomes of delivering a Lifestyle Matters programme to two groups of community living older people during 2004/5.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2004-01
• Primary Completion: 2006-07
• Study Completion: 2006-07
• Study First Submitted: 2017-01-19
• Status Verified: 2017-02
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-02-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-02-10
• Study First Posted: 2017-02-15
• Last Update Posted: 2017-02-15

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 28

Inclusion Criteria

• Community living
• Aged 65 or over

Exclusion Criteria

• Score of 18 or under on Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE)
• high level of depression, assessed using the Geriatric depression rating scale (GDS)

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Lifestyle Matters intervention	Lifestyle Matters	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Mini Mental State examination	On average 8 months after commencing intervention

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Geriatric Depression Rating Scale	On average 8 months after commencing intervention
Barthel Index	On average 8 months after commencing intervention
SF36 Quality of Life	On average 8 months after commencing intervention
WHODAS (World Health Disability Assessment Schedule)	On average 8 months after commencing intervention
Nottingham Leisure Questionnaire	On average 8 months after commencing intervention

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Sheffield Hallam University; 🇬🇧 Sheffield, United Kingdom