The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a peer-volunteering active ageing programme in preventing mobility decline in older adults

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• Conditions: Physical function in older people at risk of mobility disability; Not Applicable

• Registration Number: ISRCTN17660493
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of Birmingham

Brief Summary

2023 Protocol article in https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-023-07758-3 (added 01/12/2023)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2021-09-30
• Last Update Posted: 12 December 2023
• Study Completion: 2025-05-31

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Ongoing
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 515

Inclusion Criteria

1. Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB) score between 4 and 9 inclusive. This is based on definitions of physical frailty from the European Medicines Agency for identifying people with (or at risk of) physical frailty in clinical trials. This guidance defines pre-frailty as an SPPB score of 8-9 and frailty as an SPPB score of 7 or less
2. Planning to reside in the target area for intervention delivery for at least 18 months

Exclusion Criteria

1. Self-reported inability to walk across a room without help (use of a stick for support is acceptable)
2. Being too physically active (defined by four verbal screening questions (How would you find walking across a room? How easy would you find getting out of a low chair? How easy would you find walking up a flight of stairs with no handrail or wall to lean on? How easy do you find walking on uneven pavement without losing your balance? Responses easy/a little difficult/very difficult)
3. Having an existing major mobility limitation (SPPB of 3 or less)
4. Living in residential or nursing care; e) Having any serious medical conditions that would preclude participation

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified