Experience Corps Trial: Improving Health of Older Populations Through Generativity
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 702
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Decreased disability in mobility and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL)
研究概览
简要总结
The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of the Experience Corps program in preventing or delaying physical disability in older adults, by studying the effects of volunteerism on physical, social and cognitive well-being.
详细描述
The Baltimore Experience Corps Study is a randomized, controlled, community-based trial of the effectiveness of Experience Corps (EC) to determine if participation for adults 60 years and older, over two years of follow-up, results in better outcomes in the EC versus control arm in terms of mobility, strength, balance, and cognitive functioning.
The Experience Corps is a community-based model for health promotion for older adults embedded within a social engagement program. The program places older adult volunteers in meaningful roles in public elementary schools, bringing the time, experience, and wisdom of older adults to bear in improving academic and behavioral outcomes of children. The Experience Corps incorporates health promotion preventing disability and dependency associated with aging, into new, generative roles for older adults.
This program was initially designed by Dr. Linda Fried of this application, along with Marc Freedman of Civic Ventures, Inc. It has gone through two national demonstrations, neither of which evaluated the impact on older adults.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Single (Investigator)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 60 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •60 years or older
- •Agree to commit to at least 1 year of participation in the EC and to participate at least 15 hours per week for the full school year, if randomized to the intervention group
- •Meet minimum criteria for cognitive functioning necessary to function successfully in a school setting
- •Functionally literate, using a nationally recognized and standardized evaluation which provides grade level equivalency in reading and spelling
- •Ability to travel to the schools, if randomized to the intervention group
- •Agree to accept randomization and to participate in evaluations
- •Clearance on the Baltimore city public school's criminal background check, if randomized to intervention group
- •Complete training, if randomized to intervention group
排除标准
- •Under 60 years of age
结局指标
主要结局
Decreased disability in mobility and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL)
时间窗: Measured in 4 month intevals from baseline to 24 month
Walking speed, chair stands, questionnaires related to mobility and activities
次要结局
- Decreased falls(Measured in 4 month intervals from baseline to 24 month)
- decreased rate of decline in memory(Measured in 4 month intervals from baseline to 24 month)
- increased, preserved or slowed decline in strength, balance, walking speed, frailty, timed "get up and go", cortical plasticity and executive function and speed and accuracy in objective IADL task performance(Measured in 4 month intervals from baseline to 24 months)
研究者
George W. Rebok, PhD
Professor
Johns Hopkins University