Enhancing Resilience in Senior Community Residents

Mass General Brigham

Status: Completed

Conditions: Quality of Life; Stress, Psychological

Treatments: Behavioral: SMART-3RP Group Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05438134

2021A019096

Details and patient eligibility

About

This randomized waitlist-controlled trial tests the efficacy of the Stress Management and Resiliency Training Relaxation Response Resiliency Program (SMART-3RP), a mind-body intervention, to enhance resilience and flourishing among residents in continuing care retirement communities. The investigators hypothesize that participants in the SMART-3RP group will report greater increases in resilience and flourishing relative to participants in the control group.

Full description

This randomized control trial tests the efficacy of the Stress Management and Resiliency Training Relaxation Response Resiliency Program (SMART-3RP) to improve resilience and flourishing among older adults residing in continuing care retirement communities relative to a wait-list control group. At enrollment, participants will be randomly assigned to the intervention group or the control group using computer generated 1:1 blocked randomization stratified by community site. The intervention group will receive the SMART-3RP program immediately upon enrollment; the wait-list control group will be invited to receive the SMART-3RP program after the final survey time point. An estimate of 360 participants will be recruited from up to nine geographically diverse Erickson Senior Living communities.

Enrollment: 288 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Resident of an Erickson Senior Living community
• Currently residing in an Erickson Senior Living apartment home
• Sufficient English language skills to participate in study procedures

Exclusion criteria

• Unable or unwilling to provide informed consent
• Unable or unwilling to participate in in-person group sessions

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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288 participants in 2 patient groups

SMART-3RP Group Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Residents will participate in 9 structured weekly group sessions which incorporates stress management and relaxation training upon enrollment.

Treatment:

Behavioral: SMART-3RP Group Intervention

Waitlist Control Group Intervention

Active Comparator group

Description:

Residents will participate in 9 structured weekly group sessions which incorporates stress management and relaxation training after the final survey time point.

Treatment:

Behavioral: SMART-3RP Group Intervention