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Exploring Volunteers' Experiences in Health TAPESTRY

NCT ID: NCT03453450

Last Updated: 2020-12-21

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

89 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2018-03-13

Study Completion Date

2020-09-24

Brief Summary

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This study is meant to evaluate the Health TAPESTRY volunteer program. The objective of this study is to explore volunteer experiences in Health TAPESTRY in terms of implementation and to understand how participation in Health TAPESTRY as a volunteer is related to compassion, self-reported physical activity, quality of life, and attitudes toward older adults.

Detailed Description

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Health TAPESTRY aims to help people stay healthier for longer in the places where they live. As a person-focused, proactive approach, Health TAPESTRY incorporates trained community volunteers into the primary care team in a way that is seamless and complementary to the essential work that clinicians are undertaking each day. In the program, volunteers conduct home visits with older adult clients, complete questionnaires, and connect their clients to primary care and community resources. This study offers the opportunity to fill a major gap in the literature by investigating the experiences of volunteers within Health TAPESTRY and the effect on them of participation as an intervention in its own right.

Specifically, the study seeks to understand volunteers' experiences in the program and evaluate any effects that volunteering with the program has on the volunteers including with the volunteers health and wellness (specifically physical activity and quality of life), empathy, and attitudes toward older adults. The investigators will also look at how the volunteers patterns of compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction might change throughout involvement in the program, and how that connects to volunteer demographic characteristics like age and gender, as well as other characteristics like empathy, how many home visits are conducted, and the initial motivation to volunteer with the program.

This program evaluation study will employ qualitative and quantitative data collection strategies including surveys, narratives written by volunteers, and volunteer focus groups.

Conditions

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Volunteers

Keywords

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Primary Care

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

OTHER

Study Groups

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Health TAPESTRY volunteers

Volunteers in a primary care setting connecting with Health TAPESTRY clients

No interventions assigned to this group

Health TAPESTRY Volunteer Coordinators

The coordinators of volunteers

No interventions assigned to this group

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

Must be a Health TAPESTRY Volunteer or Volunteer Coordinator.

Exclusion Criteria

There are no further inclusion or exclusion criteria.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Canadian Red Cross

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

David Braley

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role collaborator

McMaster University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Doug Oliver, MSc,MD,CCFP

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

McMaster University

Dee Mangin, MBChB,DPH,FRN

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

McMaster University

Locations

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David Braley Health Sciences Centre, McMaster University

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Site Status

Countries

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Canada

Other Identifiers

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4301

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id