Volunteering, access to Outdoor activities and Wellbeing in older people

ISRCTN	ISRCTN56847832
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN56847832
Protocol serial number	N/A
Sponsor	University of Jyvaskylä (Finland)
Funders	Finland's Slot Machine Association (Finland), Finnish Ministry of Culture and Education (Finland)

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

PO Box 35
Jyvaskyla
40014
Finland

Study information

Primary study design	Interventional
Study design	Randomised single blind controlled trial
Secondary study design	Randomised controlled trial
Study type	Participant 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(s)	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
Key secondary outcome measure(s)	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)
Completion date	31/12/2011

Eligibility

Participant type(s)	Patient
Age group	Senior
Sex	All
Target sample size at registration	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

Results and Publications

Individual participant data (IPD) Intention to share	No
IPD sharing plan summary	Not provided at time of registration
IPD sharing plan

Study outputs

Output type	Details	Date created	Date added	Peer reviewed?	Patient-facing?
Results article	results	01/03/2015		Yes	No
Results article	results	01/04/2015		Yes	No
Participant information sheet	Participant information sheet	11/11/2025	11/11/2025	No	Yes