Volunteering, access to Outdoor activities and Wellbeing in older people
ISRCTN | ISRCTN56847832 |
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DOI | https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN56847832 |
Secondary identifying numbers | N/A |
- Submission date
- 06/09/2010
- Registration date
- 21/10/2010
- Last edited
- 30/06/2014
- Recruitment status
- No longer recruiting
- Overall study status
- Completed
- Condition category
- Signs and Symptoms
Prospectively registered
Protocol
Statistical analysis plan
Results
Individual participant data
Plain English summary of protocol
Not provided at time of registration
Contact information
Prof Taina Rantanen
Scientific
Scientific
PO Box 35
Jyvaskyla
40014
Finland
Study information
Study design | Randomised single blind controlled trial |
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Primary study design | Interventional |
Secondary study design | Randomised controlled trial |
Study setting(s) | Other |
Study type | Quality of life |
Participant information sheet | Not available in web format, please use the contact details below to request a patient information sheet |
Scientific title | Volunteering, access to Outdoor activities and Wellbeing in older people: a randomised single blinded controlled trial with an intervention group and a waiting list control group |
Study acronym | VOW |
Study objectives | Improved access to outdoor activities will improve quality of life and wellbeing of people with severe mobility limitation who are unable to leave their apartment on their own. |
Ethics approval(s) | Ethical Committee of Central Finland Hospital District, 22/09/2008 |
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied | Mobility limitation, participation restriction |
Intervention | Intervention group: Outdoor physical activity; each experiemental group member will be assigned a trained volunteer worker who will assist the participant in participating in recreational out of home activities once a week for three months. This intervention requires recruitment, training and mentoring of volunteers. Volunteers are older retired people. Control group: 3-month waiting list control group. Total duration of intervention is 3 months. |
Intervention type | Other |
Primary outcome measure | Social and environmental domains of QoL, measured with World Health Organization Quality of Life-brief version (WHOQOL-BREF) assessed at the end of the three month intervention |
Secondary outcome measures | Assessed at the end of the three month intervention: 1. Loneliness and perceived social support (Social Provision Scale) 2. Depressiveness (Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale [CES-D]) 3. Life satisfaction (Life Satisfaction Index Z) 4. Mobility limitation and physiological impairment (validated at-home tests and self-report methods) 5. Self-perceptions of health and functional abilities, motives for and barriers to physical activity, level of physical activity, social relationships and networks and other relevant life-style and health dimensions (validated questionnaires) |
Overall study start date | 01/01/2009 |
Completion date | 31/12/2011 |
Eligibility
Participant type(s) | Patient |
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Age group | Senior |
Sex | Both |
Target number of participants | 120 |
Key inclusion criteria | 1. Older community living people 2. Severe mobility limitation with difficulty in accessing the outdoors 3. Recruited through the municipal home services of the city of Jyväskylä (also, in some cases family members contact for recruitment) 4. Aged 70+ years, either sex 5. Consent to participate 6. Sufficient cognitive capacity to participate in the study |
Key exclusion criteria | 1. Severe memory loss 2. Completely unable to walk |
Date of first enrolment | 01/01/2009 |
Date of final enrolment | 31/12/2011 |
Locations
Countries of recruitment
- Finland
Study participating centre
PO Box 35
Jyvaskyla
40014
Finland
40014
Finland
Sponsor information
University of Jyvaskylä (Finland)
University/education
University/education
PO Box 35
Jyväskyla
40014
Finland
Website | https://www.jyu.fi/ |
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https://ror.org/05n3dz165 |
Funders
Funder type
Charity
Finland's Slot Machine Association (Finland)
No information available
Finnish Ministry of Culture and Education (Finland)
No information available
Results and Publications
Intention to publish date | |
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Individual participant data (IPD) Intention to share | No |
IPD sharing plan summary | Not provided at time of registration |
Publication and dissemination plan | Not provided at time of registration |
IPD sharing plan |
Study outputs
Output type | Details | Date created | Date added | Peer reviewed? | Patient-facing? |
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Results article | results | 01/03/2015 | Yes | No | |
Results article | results | 01/04/2015 | Yes | No |