GET READY · a unique intervention addressing activity reduction co-designed with Care Home residents and University students, following a service-learning methodology

GET READY - a unique intervention addressing activity reduction co-designed with Care Home residents and University students, following a service-learning methodology

The GET READY study was divided into two stages. The first stage (stage 1) focused on the integration of the service-learning methodology within a University degree, and the design of three workshops for the co-creation of an intervention to reduce sedentary behaviour and enhance physical activity in care home residents. The second stage (stage 2) focused on the feasibility of the intervention co-created in the previous stage, and a pilot study to consider preliminary effectiveness. The protocol of the GET READY study was registered in ClinicalTrials.gov, with the identifier: NCT03505385, and then published in the Journal of Frailty, Sarcopenia and Falls (article 1). In stage 1, the service-learning methodology was integrated within a current module in the 1st year of the Physical Therapy degree in Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU), and in the 3rd year of the Sport Sciences degree in Blanquerna, Ramon Llull University in Barcelona. Undergraduate students (with lecturers and the PI’s support) designed two workshops for care home residents and one workshop for staff members, relatives and policy makers and conducted a co-creation procedure (see article 1 for more details). The results of the co-creation process have been published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (article 2). 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, 20180308-GCU), and the Faculty of Psychology, Education and Sport Sciences Blanquerna Ethics Committee (Barcelona, 026/2018). Stage 2 had an initial delay of five months due to an unexpected delay to receive the Scotland A Research Ethics Committee approval. The committee debated over the inclusion of vulnerable older people with poor cognition. Ethics approval was granted on April 15th 2019 (REC reference: 19/SS/0017; IRAS project ID: 254247). Stage 2 aimed to assess the feasibility, acceptability, safety and preliminary effects of the co-created intervention over 12 weeks in a group of 31 care home residents from 4 care homes (2 located in Glasgow and 2 located in Barcelona), within a pilot two-armed pragmatic randomized clinical trial (RCT), with baseline and post assessment time points. To understand, in more depth, the thoughts on barriers, challenges, facilitators and key aspects of engaging in research studies we conducted five face-to-face interviews. Two staff members from two care homes in Glasgow (one physiotherapist and one manager), and three staff members from two care homes in Barcelona (one care assistant, one nurse and one manager) were interviewed to explore their thoughts on barriers and challenges of engaging in interventional research studies. The results of this study have been accepted for publication (article 3-submitted). Finally, we conducted a pilot two-armed pragmatic randomized clinical (RCT) trial to assess the feasibility, acceptability, safety and preliminary effects of the intervention co-created in the previous stage. The results of this RCT have been submitted for publication (article 4-submitted).

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