Compassionate Communities Neighbourhood Program

NCT ID: NCT03634163

Last Updated: 2018-08-16

Study Results

Results pending

The study team has not published outcome measurements, participant flow, or safety data for this trial yet. Check back later for updates.

Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

1000 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2018-09-01

Study Completion Date

2021-03-31

Brief Summary

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This study will evaluate a Compassionate Communities-based intervention aimed at reducing social isolation by mobilizing individuals to act on their health and social needs individually, and in collaboration with fellow members of their community. The intervention program includes facilitated building of neighbourhood networks (member benefits include access to practical help, the opportunity to develop meaningful relationships, and community mobilization), and coaching support to work on individualized goal setting and more detailed navigation support and planning.

Detailed Description

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The Compassionate Communities intervention is catalyzed by professional facilitators who visit communities with high concentrations of elderly and vulnerable residents, and recruit those who are interested in a project to identify their own health and social needs, assets and priorities; to collectively work to support each other in achieving these; and to implement a neighbourhood exchange to more easily match offers of help to people who need help. The mobilization work starts with the facilitator, who is employed by a community or social service organization, but increasingly draws on the energies of the mobilized initial participants as volunteers who conduct further community outreach in their community, attracting and mobilizing other residents, peers, and neighbouring resources in the work. Participants also plan and implement a broad range of activities identified by the residents as their priorities for neighbourhood building. Participants and their caregivers have the option of receiving more in-depth 1:1 coaching support to work on individualized goal setting, more detailed navigation support or advanced care planning following the sessions.

Conditions

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Chronic Disease Aging

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Cluster randomization with stepped wedge
Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Immediate

Quality of Life Assessment plus facilitated implementation of neighbourhood exchange and personal care support

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Neighbourhood exchange

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Facilitated coaching support to identify needs and priorities and link with resources - personal, community, friend and family, or from professional service providers; plan and implement a personalized care pathway through community exchange

Quality of Life Assessment

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Completion of baseline measures

Delayed

Quality of Life Assessment

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Quality of Life Assessment

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Completion of baseline measures

Interventions

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Neighbourhood exchange

Facilitated coaching support to identify needs and priorities and link with resources - personal, community, friend and family, or from professional service providers; plan and implement a personalized care pathway through community exchange

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Quality of Life Assessment

Completion of baseline measures

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Seniors (65 years of age and older)
* people with disabilities
* caregivers of seniors or people with disabilities
* residing in identified buildings/ neighbourhoods where the WECCC Compassionate Communities Neighbourhood program is being launched
* able to communicate in English or interpreter can be arranged

Exclusion Criteria

* not able to communicate in English and interpreter cannot be arranged
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Windsor-Essex Compassionate Care Community

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Windsor

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Hospice of Windsor and Essex County

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

Erie St. Clair Local Health Integration Network (LHIN)

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Ontario Trillium Foundation

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

McMaster University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Michelle Howard

Assistant Professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Michelle Howard, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

McMaster University

Lisa Dolovich, PharmD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

McMaster University

Kathryn Pfaff, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Windsor

Merrick Zwarenstein, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Western University

Denise Marshall

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

McMaster University

Ross Upshur

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Sinai Health Systems

Carol Bennett

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Locations

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Hospice of Windsor-Essex

Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Site Status

Countries

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Canada

Central Contacts

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Michelle Howard, PhD

Role: CONTACT

905-525-9140 ext. 28502

Deborah Sattler

Role: CONTACT

416-879-2371

Facility Contacts

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Diane Mulcaster

Role: primary

519-974-7100

Diane Halbgewachs

Role: backup

519-974-7100

Other Identifiers

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001-WECCC

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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