Co-created strategies to reduce sedentary time in care home residents
Research type
Research Study
Full title
The GET READY study: A co-created intervention with care home residents and university students following a service-learning methodology to reduce sedentary behaviour and increase movement.
IRAS ID
254247
Contact name
Maria Giné-Garriga
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Glasgow Caledonian University
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
747490 - GET READY, Funded by: European Commission Horizon 2020 Framework Programme
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 10 months, 1 days
Research summary
Background:
There is a growing demand for long-term care settings. Care-home residents are a vulnerable group with high levels of physical dependency and cognitive impairment. Long-term care facilities need to adapt and offer more effective and sustainable interventions to address older residents’ complex physical and mental health needs. Despite the increasing emphasis on patient and public involvement, marginalised groups such as care-home residents, can be overlooked when including people in the research process.
Study aim:
The GET READY project aims to integrate service-learning methodology into Physical Therapy and Sport Sciences University degrees by offering students individual service opportunities with residential care homes, in order to co-create the best suited intervention with researchers, older adults of both genders (end-users) in care homes, health professionals and care staff, caregivers, relatives and policy makers. The aforementioned stage 1 had been finalized, so in stage 2 (present application) we aim to assess the co-created intervention’s feasibility to reduce sedentary behaviour and increase physical activity in care home residents.Study design:
Stage 1 (GET READY - 1, COMPLETED) had integrated a service-learning methodology within a Physical Therapy module in Glasgow and Sport Sciences module in Barcelona, had designed two workshops for care home residents able to give informed consent, and one workshop for staff members, relatives and policy makers and had conducted a co-creation procedure. Stage 1 was approved by the Psychology, Social Work and Allied Health Sciences Ethics Committee of the School of Health and Life Sciences of Glasgow Caledonian University (Glasgow) and Ramon Llull University (Barcelona).
Stage 2 (GET READY - 2, THIS ETHICS APPLICATION) will assess the feasibility, acceptability, safety and preliminary effects of the co-created intervention of 12 weeks in a group of 60 care home residents, within a pilot two-armed pragmatic randomized clinical trial (RCT), with baseline and post assessment time points.REC name
Scotland A: Adults with Incapacity only
REC reference
19/SS/0017
Date of REC Opinion
15 Apr 2019
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion