An interventional study of Neighbourhood exchange and Quality of Life Assessment in Chronic Disease and Aging, sponsored by McMaster University. Status unknown at 1 site in Canada. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2018-08-16.
Sponsored by McMaster University · Not applicable, Interventional, and Other
This study will evaluate a Compassionate Communities-based intervention aimed at reducing social isolation by mobilizing individuals to act on their health and social needs individually, and in collaboration with fellow members of their community. The intervention program includes facilitated building of neighbourhood networks (member benefits include access to practical help, the opportunity to develop meaningful relationships, and community mobilization), and coaching support to work on individualized goal setting and more detailed navigation support and planning.
The Compassionate Communities intervention is catalyzed by professional facilitators who visit communities with high concentrations of elderly and vulnerable residents, and recruit those who are interested in a project to identify their own health and social needs, assets and priorities; to collectively work to support each other in achieving these; and to implement a neighbourhood exchange to more easily match offers of help to people who need help. The mobilization work starts with the facilitator, who is employed by a community or social service organization, but increasingly draws on the energies of the mobilized initial participants as volunteers who conduct further community outreach in their community, attracting and mobilizing other residents, peers, and neighbouring resources in the work. Participants also plan and implement a broad range of activities identified by the residents as their priorities for neighbourhood building. Participants and their caregivers have the option of receiving more in-depth 1:1 coaching support to work on individualized goal setting, more detailed navigation support or advanced care planning following the sessions.
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Exclusion Criteria:
Quality of Life Assessment plus facilitated implementation of neighbourhood exchange and personal care support
Behavioral: Neighbourhood exchange · Behavioral: Quality of Life Assessment
Quality of Life Assessment
Behavioral: Quality of Life Assessment
Facilitated coaching support to identify needs and priorities and link with resources - personal, community, friend and family, or from professional service providers; plan and implement a personalized care pathway through community exchange
Completion of baseline measures
Perception of social disconnectedness
Social disconnectedness scale; 8-item validated scale (Cornwell and Waite, 2008), higher scores indicate greater social disconnectedness
Time frame: change from baseline at 7 months
Perception of personal well-being
Assessed by Personal Well-Being Index (PWI); 8-item scale (Personal well-being index 5th edition, 2013). Higher scores indicate greater well-being
Time frame: change from baseline at 7 months
Perceived loneliness scale
Assessed by Perceived loneliness scale; 9-item validated scale (Cornwell and Waite, 2009). Higher scores indicated greater perceived isolation
Time frame: change from baseline at 7 months
Attainment of personal goals
Assessed by Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS) instrument, measured on 5-point scale for each goal identified (Hurn et al, 2006), higher score indicates greater goal attainment
Time frame: Change from baseline at 7 months
Health related quality of life
Assessed by Euroqol 5 dimension 5 level (5D-5L) scale; 5 levels of response for each of 5 items, score is converted to a single index, standardized to scale of 0 to 1, 1 being perfect health
Time frame: change from baseline at 7 months
Perceived provisions of social relationships
Social provisions scale; 10-item validated scale consisting of 5 subscales (Caron, 2013). The SPS 10 measures the perception of social support and consists of 10 items expressed as statements with responses coded on a 4-point scale from strongly disagree (= 1) to strongly agree (= 4). The total SPS-10 score is formed by the summation of raw scores, with high score indicating a higher degree of social provisions (maximum score of 40)
Time frame: change from baseline at 7 months
Number of emergency department visits
Number of emergency department visits measured from health administrative data
Time frame: 7 months
Number of hospital admissions
Number of hospital admissions measured from health administrative data
Time frame: 7 months
Cost-effectiveness
Cost-effectiveness ratio measured as difference between groups in total health care utilization costs (measured from administrative data) divided by quality adjusted life years gained from the intervention
Time frame: 7 months
Plan to share: Undecided
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