A co-created intervention with care home residents and university students following a service-learning methodology to reduce sedentary behaviour: The GET READY project protocol

Abstract

Background: There is a growing demand for long-term care settings. Care-home residents are a vulnerable group with high levels of physical dependency and cognitive impairment. Long-term care facilities need to adapt and offer more effective and sustainable interventions to address older residents' complex physical and mental health needs. Despite the increasing emphasis on patient and public involvement, marginalised groups such as care-home residents, can be overlooked when including people in the research process. The GET READY project aims to integrate servicelearning methodology into Physical Therapy and Sport Sciences University degrees by offering students individual service opportunities with residential care homes, in order to co-create the best suited intervention with researchers, older adults of both genders (end-users) in care homes, health professionals, caregivers, relatives and policy makers. Methods: Stage 1 will integrate a service-learning methodology within a Physical Therapy module in Glasgow and Sport Sciences module in Barcelona, design two workshops for care home residents and one workshop for staff members, relatives and policy makers and conduct a co-creation procedure. Stage 2 will assess the feasibility, safety and preliminary effects of the co-created intervention in a group of 60 care home residents, within a two-armed pragmatic randomized clinical trial. ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03505385.

A Pilot Randomised Clinical Trial of a Novel Approach to Reduce Sedentary Behaviour in Care Home Residents: Feasibility and Preliminary Effects of the GET READY Study

“…The protocol of the GET READY study was registered in ClinicalTrials.gov, with the identifier NCT03505385, and the study protocol had been previously published [39]. An earlier stage of the GET READY project integrated a service-learning methodology into physical therapy and sport sciences university degrees by offering students individual service opportunities with residential care homes.…”

A Novel Approach to Reduce Sedentary Behaviour in Care Home Residents: The GET READY Study Utilising Service-Learning and Co-Creation

“…The three workshops aimed at answering the following four narrower research questions (from the two general research questions): (a) understand what care home residents, staff members, relatives and policymakers think about SB and movement in care homes, (b) collect views among care home residents, staff members, relatives and policymakers about their reasons for decreasing SB and increasing movement, (c) understand how care home residents, staff members, relatives and policymakers can make an impact reducing SB and increasing movement in a care home setting, and (d) collect ideas among care home residents, staff members, relatives and policymakers of strategies to decrease SB and increase movement within a care home setting. More information about the workshops’ contents can be found in the study protocol [25].…”

“…The GET READY study integrated a service-learning methodology into Physical Therapy and Sport Sciences University degrees by offering students individual service opportunities with residential care homes [25]. They were tasked to co-create the best suited intervention to reduce the SB of residents and enhance movement throughout the day, together with researchers, end-users, care staff members, family members and policymakers, which enriched their learning with a distinctly multi-disciplinary and inter-sectorial nature.…”

Mission (im)possible: Engaging care homes, staff and residents in research studies

“…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. Ethics approvals were gained from Glasgow Caledonian University and the Faculty of Psychology, Education and Sport Sciences Blanquerna, as part of the GET READY study 12,13 . All participants signed an informed consent prior to being interviewed.…”