Healthy
Conditions
Keywords
older adults, community mobility, wellness, isolation
Brief summary
This study evaluates the program outcomes of the Let's Go program. The standardized community mobility program employs multi-modal group and individual sessions to facilitate wellness in older adults.
Detailed description
This study examines the outcomes of Let's Go, a standardized community mobility program which employs group and individual sessions of education, peer interaction, engagement in meaningful occupations, and self-reflections to help individuals understand the importance of community participation and its relationship to well-being. Program outcomes explored include increased confidence in community mobility, increased autonomy outdoors, social life and relationships, frequency of community trips, and decreased social isolation.
Interventions
OTHERLet's Go Community Mobility Program
Four week multi-modal education and experiential program to improve community mobilty
Sponsors
Kean University
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
55 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
1. Community dwelling individual 2. Report desire to learn about community mobility options 3. Able to participate in group education sessions ( 4. Able to attend during a 45 minute session 5. Independent mobility in community with or without an assistive device.
Exclusion criteria
1. Individual lives in Long Term Care facility 2. Aphasia 3. Individual has impaired cognition demonstrated by MoCA exam score ≤ 17 4. Individual is unable to stay awake for entire group session 5. Individual acts out (yelling, monopolizes, motor restlessness or agitation) in group setting.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change in Impact on Participation and Autonomy Questionnaire-Autonomy Outdoors Sub scale | Baseline, 4 weeks (program end), 6 month follow up | The IPAQ measures an individual's perception of the impact of chronic disability on participation, has good responsiveness and its content, construct, and discriminant validity as well as internal consistency are deemed adequate and verified by Rasch analysis (Magasi & Post, 2010). The content validity of the autonomy outdoors subscale (α = .81) and social life and relationships scale (α = .86) are strong. Internal reliability of the IPAQ on all subscales is high (all Cronbach's alphas \>0.8). The individual items on the AO subscale have a test-retest reliability ranging from .69 to .84 and those on the SL subscale ranged from Kw = .71 to .77 (Cardol et al., 1999, Sibley et al., 2006). |
| Change in Impact on Participation and Autonomy Questionnaire- Social Life and Relationships Sub scale | Baseline, 4 weeks (program end), 6 month follow up | The IPAQ measures an individual's perception of the impact of chronic disability on participation, has good responsiveness and its content, construct, and discriminant validity as well as internal consistency are deemed adequate and verified by Rasch analysis (Magasi & Post, 2010). The content validity of the autonomy outdoors subscale (α = .81) and social life and relationships scale (α = .86) are strong. Internal reliability of the IPAQ on all subscales is high (all Cronbach's alphas \>0.8). The individual items on the AO subscale have a test-retest reliability ranging from .69 to .84 and those on the SL subscale ranged from Kw = .71 to .77 (Cardol et al., 1999, Sibley et al., 2006). |
| Change in Frequency of community trips per month | Baseline, 4 weeks (program end), 6 month follow up | A Participant Survey was developed by the Primary Investigator in which participants self reported the frequency of community trips in the past 30 days |
| Change in Confidence in community mobility | Baseline, 4 weeks (program end), 6 month follow up | A Participant Survey was developed by the Primary Investigator in which participants self reported their confidence in community mobility on a Likert Scale |
| Change in Self report of feelings of isolation | Baseline, 4 weeks (program end), 6 month follow up | A Participant Survey was developed by the Primary Investigator in which participants self reported their feeling of isolation on a Likert Scale |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed