Study protocol of a multi-center RCT testing a social-cognitive intervention to promote volunteering in older adults against an active control

Warner, Lisa M.; Jiang, Da; Chong, Alice M. L.; Li, Tianyuan; Wolff, Julia K.; Chou, Kee Lee

doi:10.1186/s12877-019-1034-1

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“…26 Warner and colleagues are continuing to explore how social and cognitive mechanisms of health behavior change such as intention, outcome expectation, and self-efficacy relate to volunteering among older adults in Germany and Hong Kong. 27 These preliminary findings among older adults are encouraging and lay the groundwork for conceptualizing community service as a health behavior.…”

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How Ready Are Young Adults to Participate in Community Service? An Application of the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change

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Purpose: Engaging in community service, or unpaid work intended to help people in a community, is generally associated with greater overall well-being. However, the process of beginning and maintaining community service engagement has been sparsely examined. The current study applied the Transtheoretical Model (TTM) of behavior change to understanding community service readiness among young adults. Design: Cross-sectional design using an online survey. Setting: Participants were undergraduate students recruited at a mid-sized Northeastern US university in Spring 2018. Sample: Participants ( N = 314) had a mean age of 20.36 years ( SD = 3.69), were primarily White (78%), female (72%), and from moderately high socioeconomic backgrounds (as measured by parental level of education). Measures: Socio-demographics including age, gender, race-ethnicity, and parental level of education; readiness, pros, cons, and self-efficacy for community service; civic engagement behavior; well-being. Analysis: Participants were classified into very low ( n = 62), low ( n = 59), moderate ( n = 92), high ( n = 46), and very high ( n = 55) readiness for community service groupings. A MANOVA was conducted to assess relationships between groupings and community service TTM constructs, civic engagement, and well-being. Results: There were significant differences between readiness groupings on all main outcome variables, F(20, 1012) = 10.34, p < .001; Wilks’ Λ = 0.54, η2 = .14. Post-hoc Games-Howell tests showed that those exhibiting higher levels of readiness reported fewer cons, greater pros, higher self-efficacy, more overall civic engagement, and greater well-being compared to lower readiness individuals. Conclusion: Consistent with previous TTM applications, self-efficacy and the importance of pros increased across readiness groupings while the importance of cons decreased. Study findings may be used to inform readiness-tailored interventional work for increasing community service. This area of study would benefit from longitudinal research examining community service readiness beyond the college environment.

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“…This removed an additional 108 records and left 20 studies that met all inclusion criteria. Three supporting articles were located manually and treated as protocols 36‐38 …”

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Psychosocial modification of general self‐efficacy in older adults: A restricted review

2022

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In recent years, the concept of general self-efficacy has increased in popularity. General self-efficacy is positively associated with quality of life and has the potential to act as a psychological buffer against adverse events and circumstances. However, due to the long-term influences that are said to shape general self-efficacy beliefs, they may be resistant to intervention, particularly within the older population. This restricted review aimed to explore whether psychosocial interventions could improve the general self-efficacy of older adults. Aspects of intervention design associated with improvements were also investigated.Methods: A restricted review was undertaken. This included a keyword search of four major health databases (PubMed, CINAHL, PsycINFO and AgeLine).Search terms focused on general self-efficacy and the commonly used measures of this concept and were limited to the older adult population. Results: In total, 848 articles were screened, with 20 studies proceeding to data extraction. The modification of general self-efficacy in older adults appears possible, with 7 out of the 20 included studies reporting improvements postintervention. Despite issues relating to the quality of included studies and the generalisability of their results, several aspects of intervention design coincided with intervention success, including intervention duration, and employing sufficiently-qualified staff. Conclusions: Future research must address the generalisability issues identified in this review. Studies comparing the effectiveness of individual-and groupbased interventions, the efficacy of remote delivery platforms and the possibility for long-term transfer of any improvements are needed to contribute the highquality data required for policy and practice decisions in this area.

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How is the Frequency of Volunteering Associated with the Well-Being of Older Adults?: A Mini Review

Gan,

Ang

2024

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics Plus

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Study protocol of a multi-center RCT testing a social-cognitive intervention to promote volunteering in older adults against an active control

Cited by 9 publications

References 65 publications

How Ready Are Young Adults to Participate in Community Service? An Application of the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change

How Ready Are Young Adults to Participate in Community Service? An Application of the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change

Psychosocial modification of general self‐efficacy in older adults: A restricted review

How is the Frequency of Volunteering Associated with the Well-Being of Older Adults?: A Mini Review

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