Intelligent Personal Assistant for Managing Depression in Homebound Older Adults

NCT ID: NCT04900272

Last Updated: 2024-06-20

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 21 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2020-09-01
• Study Completion Date: 2022-07-15

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to design a companion booklet and pilot test it with a voice-controlled intelligent personal assistants (VIPA), like Google Home or Amazon Alexa, to provide homebound older adult patients with skills and tools to help manage social isolation.

Detailed Description

The objective of this pilot study is to design a companion booklet and pilot test it with a voice-controlled intelligent personal assistant (VIPA), Google Home or Amazon Alexa, to provide patients with skills and tools to help manage their social isolation. The companion booklet is a document that will be created using feedback obtained from a panel of geriatric experts, highlighting features of the VIPA that may be most beneficial to socially-isolated older adults. It will be submitted to the IRB for approval once finalized. The specific aims of this project are to:

Aim 1: Design a companion booklet to be used in conjunction with a VIPA (Google Home/Amazon Alexa) for improving social isolation and communication among homebound older adults, defined as someone who is unable to leave the home without assistance of a device or another person, due to a physical or cognitive condition.

Aim 2: Assess the feasibility and implementation of the VIPA (Google Home/Amazon Alexa) and the companion booklet and its impact on clinical and functional outcomes for older adults with social isolation.

Conditions

Aging; Physical Dependence

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

VIPA device and companion booklet

For Aim 2, we will recruit a total of 20-40 older adult homebound patients who are likely to be socially isolated, through the Geriatric and General Internal Medicine clinics at Northwestern (over 2,300 homebound older adults) to use the VIPA and accompanying instructional booklet focused on social-isolation. Either the study PI or Research Study Coordinator (RSC) will visit the participant's home, or assist the patient virtually, once consented, to set up the Google Home or Amazon Alexa device for them and review the companion VIPA booklet with them.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

VIPA and companion booklet

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Participants will be asked to use the VIPA and accompanying second iteration of the instructional booklet focused on social-isolation. These participants will be surveyed over the phone for 16 weeks (baseline, 2 weeks, 4 weeks, 8 weeks, and 16 weeks) with outcomes measured at each time point.

Interventions

VIPA and companion booklet

Participants will be asked to use the VIPA and accompanying second iteration of the instructional booklet focused on social-isolation. These participants will be surveyed over the phone for 16 weeks (baseline, 2 weeks, 4 weeks, 8 weeks, and 16 weeks) with outcomes measured at each time point.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Adults aged 65 years or older;
• Homebound patients of the Northwestern Medicine Geriatrics Program;
• English-speaking; and
• Able to verbally consent

Exclusion Criteria

• Condition that limits ability to consent, such as severe cognitive impairment or lack of English proficiency
• Less than 65 years of age

• Minimum Eligible Age: 65 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

The Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Centers

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Northwestern University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Katherine O'Brien

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Katherine O'Brien

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Northwestern University

Locations

Northwestern University

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Countries

United States

Provided Documents

Document Type: Study Protocol

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Document Type: Informed Consent Form

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Other Identifiers

STU00212384

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id