Clinical trial NCT05986149: Making Intergenerational Connections Through Arts
Official title: Making Intergenerational Connections Through Arts
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Conditions: Older Adults
Lead sponsor: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2023-08-14
Enrollment: 30
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 60
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: residents living in low income housing

Brief summary: The purpose of the study is to evaluate the impact on older adults' wellbeing of participating in a 10-week conversation about arts and culture with an international university student whose native language is not English.

Detailed description: Older adults residing in subsidized housing will participate in a series of online conversations over 10 weeks about various arts and culture with an international university student enrolled at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB); each weekly session will last for about 30 min to one hour.

Participants will complete survey questionnaires before and after the 10-week conversation program, and an exit interview at the end of the conversation program.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. Live alone
2. older than 60 years old
3. Residence in a subsidized apartment for at least one year
4. Able to carry on a daily conversation with or without hearing aids
5. Intact cognition as indicated by a score of greater than 5 on the Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire (SPMSQ)
6. have a working smart phone that can do video-conferencing
7. being able to provide informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

1. having physical, or sensory (visual or hearing) deficits or language barriers (non-English communicators) that may impede study participation
2. non-English speaker

Primary outcomes:
measure: University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Loneliness Scale
timeFrame: baseline
measure: University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Loneliness Scale
timeFrame: at 10 weeks
measure: University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Loneliness Scale
timeFrame: at 2 months
measure: De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale
timeFrame: baseline
measure: De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale
timeFrame: at 10 weeks
measure: De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale
timeFrame: at 2 months
measure: Social Connectedness Scale (SCS)
timeFrame: baseline
measure: Social Connectedness Scale (SCS)
timeFrame: at 10 weeks
measure: Social Connectedness Scale (SCS)
timeFrame: at 2 months
measure: Medical Outcomes Study Social Support Survey (MOSSS)
timeFrame: baseline
measure: Medical Outcomes Study Social Support Survey (MOSSS)
timeFrame: at 10 weeks
measure: Medical Outcomes Study Social Support Survey (MOSSS)
timeFrame: at 2 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS)
timeFrame: baseline
measure: Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS)
timeFrame: at 10 weeks
measure: Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS)
timeFrame: at 2 months
measure: Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS)
timeFrame: baseline
measure: Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS)
timeFrame: at 10 weeks
measure: Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS)
timeFrame: at 2 months
measure: Patient Health Questionnaire - 9 items (PHQ-9)
timeFrame: baseline
measure: Patient Health Questionnaire - 9 items (PHQ-9)
timeFrame: at 10 weeks
measure: Patient Health Questionnaire - 9 items (PHQ-9)
timeFrame: at 2 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Birmingham
country: United States
facility: University of Alabama at Birmingham
state: Alabama
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Alabama at Birmingham
name: Hon K Yuen, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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