The Impact of Social Phone Calls With Isolated Older Adults Receiving Protective Services for Abuse, Neglect and/or Exploitation

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

• Ages 65 years and older
• All sexes
• No healthy volunteers
• Older adult

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

About this study

Conditions

Senior Abuse

Being tested

Treatment

Keywords

depression, anxiety, loneliness, isolation, adult protective services

Medical subject headings

Depression, Anxiety Disorders

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

• TreatmentOther

  Following the collection of the baseline data, the study participant will be assigned to a volunteer(medical student) to begin the social phone calls. The first phone call will be scheduled to occur within one week of the consent and baseline assessments. A minimum of one social phone call will occur each week for 6-weeks. Each phone call is expected to last up to 1 hour.The calls will be unstructured and designed simply to engage in conversation with the participant. The length of the phone calls, days and times will be recorded by the volunteer along with a short journal entry describing the conversation topics and any information that stood out to the volunteer.At the end of the 6-weeks phone calls, a group session will be held with the volunteers to engage in a debriefing and narrative medicine session.

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

1. Change in Social isolation as assessed by the patient-reported outcomes measurement information system (PROMIS) Social Isolation Scale

   This is a 4 item questionnaire and each question is scored from 1(never) to 5(always) a higher number indicating more isolation

   Measured: Baseline, 6 week follow up

2. Change in Anxiety as assessed by the Geriatric Anxiety Scale

   This is a 10 item questionnaire and each question is scored form 0(not at all) to 3(most of the time),a higher number indicating more anxiety

   Measured: Baseline, 6 week follow up

3. Change in Depression as assessed by the Geriatric Depression Scale Short Form

   This is a 15 item questionnaire and each is answered either yes or no. One point is given for No to question 1, 5, 7, 11, 13 and one point for Yes to other questions.

   Normal ± 2 Mildly Depressed 7 ± 3 Very Depressed 12 ± 2

   Measured: Baseline, 6 week follow up

4. Change in Loneliness as assessed by the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA ) Loneliness Scale

   A 20-item scale that measures the subjective experience of loneliness on a four-point Likert scale. Participants rate each item as either O (I often feel this way),S (I sometimes feel this way), R (I rarely feel this way), N (I never feel this way).

   Measured: Baseline, 6 week follow up

5. Change in perceived general health as assessed by the Self-Rated Health Question

   The participant will rate their health as excellent, very good, good, fair or poor

   Measured: Baseline, 6 week follow up

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

1. First posted30 Aug 2021
2. Study start15 Jun 2021
3. Primary completion1 Sep 2021 (estimated)
4. Study completion1 Nov 2021 (estimated)

Resources

• Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
• Other trials for Senior AbuseStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
• More trials run by The University of Texas Health Science Center, HoustonThe sponsor's other registered studies.
• What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.