Promoting Seniors' Health With Home Care Aides
Last updated on July 2021Recruitment
- Recruitment Status
- Recruiting
- Estimated Enrollment
- Same as current
Summary
- Conditions
- Muscle Weakness
- Type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Design
- Allocation: RandomizedIntervention Model: Parallel AssignmentIntervention Model Description: Home care aide-client pairs will be randomly assigned to one of two groups in parallel for the duration of the study. Home care aides will not be allowed to have multiple participating clients assigned to different groups to prevent group contamination.Masking: Single (Outcomes Assessor)Masking Description: N/A (there are no other parties who will be masked in the clinical trial)Primary Purpose: Prevention
Participation Requirements
- Age
- Between 60 years and 110 years
- Gender
- Both males and females
Description
Regular physical activity benefits older adults physically and mentally. However, the availability and the evidence for physical activity programs that are safe and appropriate for home-bound older adults at risk for nursing home admission are limited. The current project aims to examine the effecti...
Regular physical activity benefits older adults physically and mentally. However, the availability and the evidence for physical activity programs that are safe and appropriate for home-bound older adults at risk for nursing home admission are limited. The current project aims to examine the effectiveness of a safe physical activity program, led by home care aides who regularly help hard-to-reach older home care clients with housekeeping and routine personal care services in the home. The primary aim is to test whether the safe physical activity program with a built-in motivational enhancement component, performed in a seated position, preserves the function and well-being of home care clients. The secondary aim is to understand for whom the program is efficacious, the extent to which the program can reach the target population, the extent to which participants drop out of the program, the extent to which program participants maintain the behavioral change introduced by the intervention, and what the program's cost-effectiveness is. Building on a pilot project that demonstrated the program's feasibility in a large home care program funded by the state and Medicaid, this randomized controlled trial will inform future expansion of the physical activity program into real-world home care settings.
Tracking Information
- NCT #
- NCT03301116
- Collaborators
- National Institute on Aging (NIA)
- Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Naoko Muramatsu, PhD University of Illinois at Chicago