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    <required_header>
      <download_date>ClinicalTrials.gov processed this data on September 20, 2023</download_date>
      <link_text>Link to the current ClinicalTrials.gov record.</link_text>
      <url>https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05984732</url>
    </required_header>
    <id_info>
      <org_study_id>#2021-0206</org_study_id>
      <nct_id>NCT05984732</nct_id>
    </id_info>
    <brief_title>Intergenerational Reminiscence and Digital Storytelling</brief_title>
    <official_title>Intergenerational Connections: Reminiscence and Digital Storytelling to Improve Social and Emotional Well-being of Older Adults With ADRD</official_title>
    <sponsors>
      <lead_sponsor>
        <agency>The University of Texas at Arlington</agency>
        <agency_class>Other</agency_class>
      </lead_sponsor>
      <collaborator>
        <agency>Retirement Research Foundation</agency>
        <agency_class>Other</agency_class>
      </collaborator>
    </sponsors>
    <source>The University of Texas at Arlington</source>
    <oversight_info>
      <has_dmc>No</has_dmc>
      <is_fda_regulated_drug>No</is_fda_regulated_drug>
      <is_fda_regulated_device>No</is_fda_regulated_device>
    </oversight_info>
    <brief_summary>
      <textblock>
        The goal of this clinical trial is to develop and test how reminiscence offered by trained&#xD;
        young adult volunteers using a digital storytelling (DST) platform may help older persons&#xD;
        with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) to improve their social and emotional&#xD;
        well-being. The main questions it aims to answer are:&#xD;
  &#xD;
          1. Whether is this reminiscence and DST based intervention effective in improving social&#xD;
             and emotional well-being of older adults with ADRD?&#xD;
  &#xD;
          2. Whether do young adult participants improve their social and emotional well-being as&#xD;
             well as knowledge and attitudes towards aging after participating this study?&#xD;
  &#xD;
        Older adult participants in the intervention group will receive 6 sessions of life-review&#xD;
        with young adult volunteers and create a DST based on their life review discussion in the&#xD;
        last 4 weeks. Older adult participants in the social wellness control group will receive 6&#xD;
        sessions of general talks with young adults and create a non-digital scrapbook or journal at&#xD;
        week 7-10. Researchers will compare these two groups to see if participants in the&#xD;
        intervention group benefit more on their well-being.&#xD;
      </textblock>
    </brief_summary>
    <detailed_description>
      <textblock>
        Project Significance:&#xD;
  &#xD;
        The number of persons aged 65 and older with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD)&#xD;
        is estimated to reach 7.1 million by 2025. Most older adults with ADRD live in the community&#xD;
        and many of them live alone. There is growing concern about social isolation, loneliness, and&#xD;
        diminished emotional well-being among persons with ADRD. Research suggests that reminiscence&#xD;
        strategies combined with an intergenerational approach may yield significant social and&#xD;
        mental health benefits for older adults. Recently, experts have recommended the production of&#xD;
        a digital life story book as part of reminiscence. Reminiscence is typically implemented by&#xD;
        trained professionals (e.g. social workers, nurses), however, there has been growing interest&#xD;
        in using trained volunteers due to staffing shortages and the costs associated with&#xD;
        reminiscence programs. The proposed study will develop and test how reminiscence offered by&#xD;
        trained young adult volunteers using a digital storytelling (DST) platform may help older&#xD;
        persons with ADRD to improve their social and emotional well-being. The proposed study is&#xD;
        well-aligned with the RRF Foundation for Aging's mission to improve the quality of life for&#xD;
        older people and also addresses a key research priority of RRF Foundation for Aging, social&#xD;
        and intergenerational connectedness.&#xD;
  &#xD;
        Project Goals and Objectives:&#xD;
  &#xD;
        Goal 1: Quantitatively test the effectiveness of this intervention in improving social&#xD;
        well-being of older adults with ADRD. The objectives are to: (1) provide a 10-session&#xD;
        intervention with reminiscence and DST to older adults by trained young adult volunteers, and&#xD;
        (2) test whether older adults report significant improvement in quality of life and/or a&#xD;
        decline in loneliness after the intervention.&#xD;
  &#xD;
        Goal 2: Quantitatively test the effectiveness of this intervention in improving emotional&#xD;
        well-being of older adults with ADRD. The objectives are to: (1) provide a 10-session&#xD;
        intervention with reminiscence and DST to older adults by trained young adult volunteers, and&#xD;
        (2) test whether older adults report significant changes in affect and/or resilience after&#xD;
        the intervention.&#xD;
  &#xD;
        Goal 3: Quantitatively test attitudes towards aging of the young adult volunteers. The&#xD;
        objectives are to: (1) offer opportunities for trained young adult volunteers to engage with&#xD;
        older adults in the 10-session intervention, and (2) test changes of their attitudes towards&#xD;
        aging after the intervention with surveys.&#xD;
  &#xD;
        Goal 4: Quantitatively test knowledge and awareness of ADRD disease of the young adult&#xD;
        volunteers. The objectives are to: (1) offer a three-hour training to the young adult&#xD;
        volunteers before the intervention starts, which covers the biological aspects of ADRD and&#xD;
        how to communicate and connect interpersonally to persons with ADRD, and (2) test changes in&#xD;
        their reported knowledge and awareness of ADRD with surveys.&#xD;
  &#xD;
        Goal 5: Qualitatively evaluate the usefulness of this intervention from perspectives of the&#xD;
        dyads. The objectives are to: (1) explore and interpret the statistical results obtained in&#xD;
        goals 1-2 through individual interviews with older adults who report the greatest and least&#xD;
        changes in well-being and attitudes toward aging; and (3) examine dyads participants'&#xD;
        perceptions of the intervention in terms of quality, benefits, and usefulness.&#xD;
  &#xD;
        Methods:&#xD;
  &#xD;
        Sampling and recruitment. Participants in this study will be older adults living in the&#xD;
        community and youth participants who are currently enrolled as undergraduate or graduate&#xD;
        students at one large university. Prior power analysis showed a total of 92 dyads are&#xD;
        required to test the effectiveness of the proposed intervention. Older adults with ADRD will&#xD;
        be recruited through a community partnership with Tarrant County Meals On Wheels. Recruitment&#xD;
        of young adult volunteers will target student organizations that have established&#xD;
        relationships with the faculty as well as through faculty teaching. All participant&#xD;
        recruitment (i.e. older and younger adults) will occur through phone calls and/or Microsoft&#xD;
        Teams.&#xD;
  &#xD;
        Study design. The proposed project will conduct a randomized control trial to assess the&#xD;
        effects of the intervention. The older and younger participants will be randomly matched as&#xD;
        dyads. Subsequently, the matched dyads will be randomly assigned into the intervention or&#xD;
        control groups. Data will be collected at baseline prior to the intervention, mid-&#xD;
        intervention, at the end of the intervention, and 3 months after the intervention.&#xD;
  &#xD;
        An explanatory sequential mixed methods design will be utilized involving first collecting&#xD;
        and analyzing the quantitative survey data to identify subsamples of participants who report&#xD;
        the greatest and least changes in outcome measures, and then conducting qualitative interview&#xD;
        of these subsamples. Of the individuals with the highest 10% (n = 5) or lowest 10% (n = 5) of&#xD;
        changes based on survey tests, we will conduct follow up qualitative interviews through phone&#xD;
        calls/Microsoft Teams to capture the details of their perceptions of the intervention and&#xD;
        present a more robust analysis, taking advantage of the strengths of both methods.&#xD;
  &#xD;
        Intervention. Before the intervention starts, the young adult volunteers will be required to&#xD;
        attend a group training. Subsequently, older adults in the intervention group will receive 10&#xD;
        sessions of life-review with young adult volunteers. During week 1-6, a life history&#xD;
        interview will be carried out with different themes in each week: major turning points in&#xD;
        life (W1), family history (W2), life/career accomplishments (W3), history of loves and hates&#xD;
        (W4), experiences of suffering or stressful experiences (W5), and meaning and purpose of life&#xD;
        (W6). Guidelines for conducting a life history interview will be prepared for the young adult&#xD;
        volunteers based on the work of Watt and Cappeliez. After each session, the young adult&#xD;
        participant will write a one-page summary and reflect on the interview to help prepare the&#xD;
        subsequent DST. During weeks 7-10, the dyad participants will develop the DST together using&#xD;
        a password protected, encrypted tablet provided by the university. The contents of sessions&#xD;
        7-10 will be structured as: outline/script, plan and storyboard (W7), film and record (W8),&#xD;
        evaluate, integrate and finalize (W9), and publish/ share (W10). Telephone-based intervention&#xD;
        will be conducted for this study.&#xD;
  &#xD;
        Measurement and data analysis. The primary outcomes of the study will be social and emotional&#xD;
        well-being of older adults, and the secondary outcomes are the benefits of young adult&#xD;
        volunteers. For social well-being, quality of life is a relatively global and stable&#xD;
        phenomenon that comprehensively measures people's psychosocial well-being, and will be&#xD;
        measured by quality of life-Alzheimer's disease (QoL-AD). Loneliness represents the negative&#xD;
        subjective experience of the inadequacy of social relationships and will be measured with the&#xD;
        De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale. For emotional well-being, positive and negative affect&#xD;
        have been used to describe affective, emotional components of subjective well-being. It will&#xD;
        be measured by Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS). Resilience, as an important&#xD;
        emotional well-being indicator, assesses one's ability to bounce back or adapt to stressful&#xD;
        situations or crises and will be measured by the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS). For the young&#xD;
        adult volunteers, attitude towards aging will be measured with the Fraboni Scale of Ageism&#xD;
        (FSA). Knowledge and awareness of ADRD disease is measured by the Alzheimer's Disease&#xD;
        Knowledge Scale (ADKS). For research goals 1 to 4, quantitative analysis of&#xD;
        covariate-adjusted linear mixed models for repeated measures will be computed to compare the&#xD;
        intervention and control groups over time on the major outcomes of older adults and youth&#xD;
        volunteers. For research goal 5, conventional content analysis of qualitative interviews will&#xD;
        be conducted.&#xD;
  &#xD;
        Potential regional or national impact:&#xD;
  &#xD;
        The study, if successful, will lead to a replicable intervention that will have the potential&#xD;
        for broader implementation in additional regions through community partners such as Area&#xD;
        Agencies on Aging and Meals On Wheels. The proposed evaluation activities will allow us to&#xD;
        determine the applicability of intergenerational reminiscence with DST as an effective&#xD;
        intervention for supporting the social and emotional needs of persons with ADRD. After&#xD;
        further field testing, the intervention may be scaled up to be implemented as a tool of&#xD;
        practice across universities and communities in the U.S. and with larger numbers of clients,&#xD;
        thereby maximizing its impact as an intervention to strengthen the social and emotional&#xD;
        well-being of older adults with ADRD.&#xD;
      </textblock>
    </detailed_description>
    <overall_status>Completed</overall_status>
    <start_date type="Actual">April 15, 2021</start_date>
    <completion_date type="Actual">August 30, 2022</completion_date>
    <primary_completion_date type="Actual">August 11, 2022</primary_completion_date>
    <phase>N/A</phase>
    <study_type>Interventional</study_type>
    <has_expanded_access>No</has_expanded_access>
    <study_design_info>
      <allocation>Randomized</allocation>
      <intervention_model>Parallel Assignment</intervention_model>
      <primary_purpose>Supportive Care</primary_purpose>
      <masking>Single (Participant)</masking>
    </study_design_info>
    <primary_outcome>
      <measure>Quality of life of older adults</measure>
      <time_frame>up to 6 months</time_frame>
      <description>Older adults' quality of life will be measured using the Quality of Life-Alzheimer's Disease (QoL-AD). Thirteen items will be asked with each rated by a scale of 1-4 (poor, fair, good, or excellent). Sum scores will be calculated for final analysis with a potential range of 13-52. The higher the QoL-AD score, the better is the quality of life.</description>
    </primary_outcome>
    <primary_outcome>
      <measure>Affect of older adults</measure>
      <time_frame>up to 6 months</time_frame>
      <description>Positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA) of older adults will be conducted with Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS). Ten positive and Ten negative emotions will be asked using a 5-point scale. Sum scores will be calculated with higher scores indicating more PA and NA respectively, with potential range of 10-50 for each sum score.</description>
    </primary_outcome>
    <primary_outcome>
      <measure>Resilience of older adults</measure>
      <time_frame>up to 6 months</time_frame>
      <description>Resilience of older adults will be measured using the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS). Six items will be asked and each item ranges from 1 (low resilience) to 5 (high resilience). Total scores will be calculated for final analysis with a potential range of 6-30. The higher the sum score, the more resilience of older adults.</description>
    </primary_outcome>
    <primary_outcome>
      <measure>Loneliness of older adults</measure>
      <time_frame>up to 6 months</time_frame>
      <description>Loneliness will be measured by the De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale. Six items will be asked, each is measured with a 5 Likert scale. High sum scores indicate great loneliness with a potential range of 6-30.</description>
    </primary_outcome>
    <secondary_outcome>
      <measure>Loneliness of young adult</measure>
      <time_frame>up to 6 months</time_frame>
      <description>Loneliness of young adult will be measured by De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale. Sum scores will be calculated with higher sum scores indicating more loneliness, with a potential range of 6-30.</description>
    </secondary_outcome>
    <secondary_outcome>
      <measure>Knowledge of ADRD</measure>
      <time_frame>up to 6 months</time_frame>
      <description>Young adults' knowledge of ADRD will be measured with the Alzheimer's Disease Knowledge Scale (ADKS). Thirty items will be asked as true or false. Total scores will be calculated for final analysis with a potential range of 0-30. Higher scores indicate more knowledge of ADRD.</description>
    </secondary_outcome>
    <secondary_outcome>
      <measure>Attitudes toward aging</measure>
      <time_frame>up to 6 months</time_frame>
      <description>Young adults;s attitudes toward aging will be measured with the Fraboni Scale of Ageism (FSA). Twenty nine statements will be raged based on a 4-point Likert scale. Higher sum scores indicate more ageism of young adults, with a potential range of 29-116.</description>
    </secondary_outcome>
    <other_outcome>
      <measure>To qualitatively evaluate the usefulness of this intervention from the perspectives of the selected Dyads</measure>
      <time_frame>interview will last for up to 60 minutes</time_frame>
      <description>Follow-up qualitative interviews will be conducted to explore participants' overall experience with and perceptions about the intervention. On the basis of the results from the survey, the investigators will select participants who have the highest and lowest levels of changes in the loneliness outcomes for further qualitative interviews (10 dyads in total). Each generation's experiences, perspectives, challenges, and suggestions regarding this intervention will be asked during these in-depth interviews. Content analyses will be conducted.</description>
    </other_outcome>
    <number_of_arms>2</number_of_arms>
    <enrollment type="Actual">206</enrollment>
    <condition>Alzheimer Disease</condition>
    <arm_group>
      <arm_group_label>Reminiscence with digital storytelling</arm_group_label>
      <arm_group_type>Experimental</arm_group_type>
      <description>Older adults in the intervention group will receive 10 sessions of life-review or reminiscence discussion with the trained young adult volunteers (1-1.5 hours each week for 10 weeks). At the end of the study, they create a digital storybook based on their previous discussion.</description>
    </arm_group>
    <arm_group>
      <arm_group_label>Social wellness with scrapbook or journal</arm_group_label>
      <arm_group_type>Sham Comparator</arm_group_type>
      <description>Older adults in the control group will have general social wellness discussion with the young adult volunteers. At the end of the study, they will create a journal/scrapbook.</description>
    </arm_group>
    <intervention>
      <intervention_type>Behavioral</intervention_type>
      <intervention_name>Reminiscence with digital storytelling</intervention_name>
      <description>The older and young adult participants will be randomly assigned into the intervention (reminiscence) or control (social wellness) groups and then be randomly matched as dyads within each group. Older adults in the intervention group will receive 10 sessions of life-review with the trained young adult volunteers (1-1.5 hours each week for 10 weeks). During weeks 1-6, a life history interview will be carried out with different themes in each week: major turning points in life (W1), family history (W2), life/career accomplishments (W3), history of loves and hates (W4), stress experiences (W5), and meaning and purpose of life (W6). During weeks 7-10, the dyads will develop the DST together using tablets already owned by the UTA School of Social Work. The contents of sessions 7-10 will be structured as: outline/script, plan and storyboard (W7), film and record (W8), evaluate, integrate and finalize (W9), and publish/share (W10).</description>
      <arm_group_label>Reminiscence with digital storytelling</arm_group_label>
    </intervention>
    <intervention>
      <intervention_type>Behavioral</intervention_type>
      <intervention_name>Social wellness with scrapbook or journal</intervention_name>
      <description>Older adults in the control group will have general social wellness discussion with the young adult volunteers, instead of structured reminiscence guidelines. The topics are: diet and health (week 1); exercise/activity and health (week 2); emotions and health (week 3); religious/spiritual practices and health (week 4); family/friend relationships and health (week 5); and social activities/engagement and health (week 6). For weeks 7-10, instead of DST, the young adult volunteer will work with the older adult to create an unstructured, non-digital record of the social visit related to wellness in later life (e.g. wellness scrapbook/journal).</description>
      <arm_group_label>Social wellness with scrapbook or journal</arm_group_label>
    </intervention>
    <eligibility>
      <criteria>
        <textblock>
          The inclusion criteria of the older adult participants are those who:&#xD;
  &#xD;
            -  are aged 65 years or older;&#xD;
  &#xD;
            -  have cognitive impairment measured by Ascertain Dementia 8 screening scale;&#xD;
  &#xD;
            -  have decisional capacity as measured by the University of California, San Diego Brief&#xD;
               Assessment of Capacity to Consent (UBACC) ;&#xD;
  &#xD;
            -  are not participating any other research protocol currently;&#xD;
  &#xD;
            -  can speak and understand English.&#xD;
  &#xD;
          The exclusion criteria for older adults are:&#xD;
  &#xD;
            -  participating in another trial or intervention;&#xD;
  &#xD;
            -  have health issues that prevent them from participating in the study for 3 months;&#xD;
  &#xD;
            -  cannot commit to be available for the full 10 weeks of intervention.&#xD;
  &#xD;
          The inclusion criteria for the young adult volunteers are:&#xD;
  &#xD;
            -  age 18-30 years old;&#xD;
  &#xD;
            -  currently enrolled as a student at UTA when the study is conducted;&#xD;
  &#xD;
            -  can commit to be available for the full 10 weeks of the intervention.&#xD;
  &#xD;
          The exclusion criteria for the young adult volunteers are:&#xD;
  &#xD;
            -  not current UTA student in the time of the study;&#xD;
  &#xD;
            -  have health issues or limited availability that prevent them from participating for&#xD;
               the entire 10 weeks of intervention.&#xD;
        </textblock>
      </criteria>
      <gender>All</gender>
      <minimum_age>65 Years</minimum_age>
      <maximum_age>N/A</maximum_age>
      <healthy_volunteers>Accepts Healthy Volunteers</healthy_volunteers>
    </eligibility>
    <location>
      <facility>
        <name>The University of Texas at Arlington</name>
        <address>
          <city>Arlington</city>
          <state>Texas</state>
          <zip>76019</zip>
          <country>United States</country>
        </address>
      </facility>
    </location>
    <location_countries>
      <country>United States</country>
    </location_countries>
    <verification_date>August 2023</verification_date>
    <study_first_submitted>July 14, 2023</study_first_submitted>
    <study_first_submitted_qc>August 7, 2023</study_first_submitted_qc>
    <study_first_posted type="Actual">August 9, 2023</study_first_posted>
    <last_update_submitted>August 7, 2023</last_update_submitted>
    <last_update_submitted_qc>August 7, 2023</last_update_submitted_qc>
    <last_update_posted type="Actual">August 9, 2023</last_update_posted>
    <responsible_party>
      <responsible_party_type>Principal Investigator</responsible_party_type>
      <investigator_affiliation>The University of Texas at Arlington</investigator_affiliation>
      <investigator_full_name>Ling Xu</investigator_full_name>
      <investigator_title>Associate Professor</investigator_title>
    </responsible_party>
    <keyword>ADRD</keyword>
    <keyword>DST</keyword>
    <keyword>reminiscence</keyword>
    <keyword>older adult</keyword>
    <keyword>young adult volunteer</keyword>
    <keyword>RCT</keyword>
    <condition_browse>
      <!-- CAUTION:  The following MeSH terms are assigned with an imperfect algorithm            -->
      <mesh_term>Alzheimer Disease</mesh_term>
    </condition_browse>
    <patient_data>
      <sharing_ipd>No</sharing_ipd>
    </patient_data>
    <!-- Results have not yet been posted for this study                                          -->
  </clinical_study>
  
  
text: download date: ClinicalTrials.gov processed this data on September 20, 2023
  link text: Link to the current ClinicalTrials.gov record.
  url: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05984732
  org study id: #2021-0206
  nct id: NCT05984732
  lead sponsor: 
  collaborator: 
  has dmc: No
  is fda regulated drug: No
  is fda regulated device: No
  The goal of this clinical trial is to develop and test how reminiscence offered by trained
        young adult volunteers using a digital storytelling (DST) platform may help older persons
        with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) to improve their social and emotional
        well-being. The main questions it aims to answer are:
  
          1. Whether is this reminiscence and DST based intervention effective in improving social
             and emotional well-being of older adults with ADRD?
  
          2. Whether do young adult participants improve their social and emotional well-being as
             well as knowledge and attitudes towards aging after participating this study?
  
        Older adult participants in the intervention group will receive 6 sessions of life-review
        with young adult volunteers and create a DST based on their life review discussion in the
        last 4 weeks. Older adult participants in the social wellness control group will receive 6
        sessions of general talks with young adults and create a non-digital scrapbook or journal at
        week 7-10. Researchers will compare these two groups to see if participants in the
        intervention group benefit more on their well-being.
  Project Significance:
  
        The number of persons aged 65 and older with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD)
        is estimated to reach 7.1 million by 2025. Most older adults with ADRD live in the community
        and many of them live alone. There is growing concern about social isolation, loneliness, and
        diminished emotional well-being among persons with ADRD. Research suggests that reminiscence
        strategies combined with an intergenerational approach may yield significant social and
        mental health benefits for older adults. Recently, experts have recommended the production of
        a digital life story book as part of reminiscence. Reminiscence is typically implemented by
        trained professionals (e.g. social workers, nurses), however, there has been growing interest
        in using trained volunteers due to staffing shortages and the costs associated with
        reminiscence programs. The proposed study will develop and test how reminiscence offered by
        trained young adult volunteers using a digital storytelling (DST) platform may help older
        persons with ADRD to improve their social and emotional well-being. The proposed study is
        well-aligned with the RRF Foundation for Aging's mission to improve the quality of life for
        older people and also addresses a key research priority of RRF Foundation for Aging, social
        and intergenerational connectedness.
  
        Project Goals and Objectives:
  
        Goal 1: Quantitatively test the effectiveness of this intervention in improving social
        well-being of older adults with ADRD. The objectives are to: (1) provide a 10-session
        intervention with reminiscence and DST to older adults by trained young adult volunteers, and
        (2) test whether older adults report significant improvement in quality of life and/or a
        decline in loneliness after the intervention.
  
        Goal 2: Quantitatively test the effectiveness of this intervention in improving emotional
        well-being of older adults with ADRD. The objectives are to: (1) provide a 10-session
        intervention with reminiscence and DST to older adults by trained young adult volunteers, and
        (2) test whether older adults report significant changes in affect and/or resilience after
        the intervention.
  
        Goal 3: Quantitatively test attitudes towards aging of the young adult volunteers. The
        objectives are to: (1) offer opportunities for trained young adult volunteers to engage with
        older adults in the 10-session intervention, and (2) test changes of their attitudes towards
        aging after the intervention with surveys.
  
        Goal 4: Quantitatively test knowledge and awareness of ADRD disease of the young adult
        volunteers. The objectives are to: (1) offer a three-hour training to the young adult
        volunteers before the intervention starts, which covers the biological aspects of ADRD and
        how to communicate and connect interpersonally to persons with ADRD, and (2) test changes in
        their reported knowledge and awareness of ADRD with surveys.
  
        Goal 5: Qualitatively evaluate the usefulness of this intervention from perspectives of the
        dyads. The objectives are to: (1) explore and interpret the statistical results obtained in
        goals 1-2 through individual interviews with older adults who report the greatest and least
        changes in well-being and attitudes toward aging; and (3) examine dyads participants'
        perceptions of the intervention in terms of quality, benefits, and usefulness.
  
        Methods:
  
        Sampling and recruitment. Participants in this study will be older adults living in the
        community and youth participants who are currently enrolled as undergraduate or graduate
        students at one large university. Prior power analysis showed a total of 92 dyads are
        required to test the effectiveness of the proposed intervention. Older adults with ADRD will
        be recruited through a community partnership with Tarrant County Meals On Wheels. Recruitment
        of young adult volunteers will target student organizations that have established
        relationships with the faculty as well as through faculty teaching. All participant
        recruitment (i.e. older and younger adults) will occur through phone calls and/or Microsoft
        Teams.
  
        Study design. The proposed project will conduct a randomized control trial to assess the
        effects of the intervention. The older and younger participants will be randomly matched as
        dyads. Subsequently, the matched dyads will be randomly assigned into the intervention or
        control groups. Data will be collected at baseline prior to the intervention, mid-
        intervention, at the end of the intervention, and 3 months after the intervention.
  
        An explanatory sequential mixed methods design will be utilized involving first collecting
        and analyzing the quantitative survey data to identify subsamples of participants who report
        the greatest and least changes in outcome measures, and then conducting qualitative interview
        of these subsamples. Of the individuals with the highest 10% (n = 5) or lowest 10% (n = 5) of
        changes based on survey tests, we will conduct follow up qualitative interviews through phone
        calls/Microsoft Teams to capture the details of their perceptions of the intervention and
        present a more robust analysis, taking advantage of the strengths of both methods.
  
        Intervention. Before the intervention starts, the young adult volunteers will be required to
        attend a group training. Subsequently, older adults in the intervention group will receive 10
        sessions of life-review with young adult volunteers. During week 1-6, a life history
        interview will be carried out with different themes in each week: major turning points in
        life (W1), family history (W2), life/career accomplishments (W3), history of loves and hates
        (W4), experiences of suffering or stressful experiences (W5), and meaning and purpose of life
        (W6). Guidelines for conducting a life history interview will be prepared for the young adult
        volunteers based on the work of Watt and Cappeliez. After each session, the young adult
        participant will write a one-page summary and reflect on the interview to help prepare the
        subsequent DST. During weeks 7-10, the dyad participants will develop the DST together using
        a password protected, encrypted tablet provided by the university. The contents of sessions
        7-10 will be structured as: outline/script, plan and storyboard (W7), film and record (W8),
        evaluate, integrate and finalize (W9), and publish/ share (W10). Telephone-based intervention
        will be conducted for this study.
  
        Measurement and data analysis. The primary outcomes of the study will be social and emotional
        well-being of older adults, and the secondary outcomes are the benefits of young adult
        volunteers. For social well-being, quality of life is a relatively global and stable
        phenomenon that comprehensively measures people's psychosocial well-being, and will be
        measured by quality of life-Alzheimer's disease (QoL-AD). Loneliness represents the negative
        subjective experience of the inadequacy of social relationships and will be measured with the
        De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale. For emotional well-being, positive and negative affect
        have been used to describe affective, emotional components of subjective well-being. It will
        be measured by Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS). Resilience, as an important
        emotional well-being indicator, assesses one's ability to bounce back or adapt to stressful
        situations or crises and will be measured by the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS). For the young
        adult volunteers, attitude towards aging will be measured with the Fraboni Scale of Ageism
        (FSA). Knowledge and awareness of ADRD disease is measured by the Alzheimer's Disease
        Knowledge Scale (ADKS). For research goals 1 to 4, quantitative analysis of
        covariate-adjusted linear mixed models for repeated measures will be computed to compare the
        intervention and control groups over time on the major outcomes of older adults and youth
        volunteers. For research goal 5, conventional content analysis of qualitative interviews will
        be conducted.
  
        Potential regional or national impact:
  
        The study, if successful, will lead to a replicable intervention that will have the potential
        for broader implementation in additional regions through community partners such as Area
        Agencies on Aging and Meals On Wheels. The proposed evaluation activities will allow us to
        determine the applicability of intergenerational reminiscence with DST as an effective
        intervention for supporting the social and emotional needs of persons with ADRD. After
        further field testing, the intervention may be scaled up to be implemented as a tool of
        practice across universities and communities in the U.S. and with larger numbers of clients,
        thereby maximizing its impact as an intervention to strengthen the social and emotional
        well-being of older adults with ADRD.
  allocation: Randomized
  intervention model: Parallel Assignment
  primary purpose: Supportive Care
  masking: Single (Participant)
  measure: Quality of life of older adults
  time frame: up to 6 months
  description: Older adults' quality of life will be measured using the Quality of Life-Alzheimer's Disease (QoL-AD). Thirteen items will be asked with each rated by a scale of 1-4 (poor, fair, good, or excellent). Sum scores will be calculated for final analysis with a potential range of 13-52. The higher the QoL-AD score, the better is the quality of life.
  measure: Affect of older adults
  time frame: up to 6 months
  description: Positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA) of older adults will be conducted with Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS). Ten positive and Ten negative emotions will be asked using a 5-point scale. Sum scores will be calculated with higher scores indicating more PA and NA respectively, with potential range of 10-50 for each sum score.
  measure: Resilience of older adults
  time frame: up to 6 months
  description: Resilience of older adults will be measured using the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS). Six items will be asked and each item ranges from 1 (low resilience) to 5 (high resilience). Total scores will be calculated for final analysis with a potential range of 6-30. The higher the sum score, the more resilience of older adults.
  measure: Loneliness of older adults
  time frame: up to 6 months
  description: Loneliness will be measured by the De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale. Six items will be asked, each is measured with a 5 Likert scale. High sum scores indicate great loneliness with a potential range of 6-30.
  measure: Loneliness of young adult
  time frame: up to 6 months
  description: Loneliness of young adult will be measured by De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale. Sum scores will be calculated with higher sum scores indicating more loneliness, with a potential range of 6-30.
  measure: Knowledge of ADRD
  time frame: up to 6 months
  description: Young adults' knowledge of ADRD will be measured with the Alzheimer's Disease Knowledge Scale (ADKS). Thirty items will be asked as true or false. Total scores will be calculated for final analysis with a potential range of 0-30. Higher scores indicate more knowledge of ADRD.
  measure: Attitudes toward aging
  time frame: up to 6 months
  description: Young adults;s attitudes toward aging will be measured with the Fraboni Scale of Ageism (FSA). Twenty nine statements will be raged based on a 4-point Likert scale. Higher sum scores indicate more ageism of young adults, with a potential range of 29-116.
  measure: To qualitatively evaluate the usefulness of this intervention from the perspectives of the selected Dyads
  time frame: interview will last for up to 60 minutes
  description: Follow-up qualitative interviews will be conducted to explore participants' overall experience with and perceptions about the intervention. On the basis of the results from the survey, the investigators will select participants who have the highest and lowest levels of changes in the loneliness outcomes for further qualitative interviews (10 dyads in total). Each generation's experiences, perspectives, challenges, and suggestions regarding this intervention will be asked during these in-depth interviews. Content analyses will be conducted.
  arm group label: Reminiscence with digital storytelling
  arm group type: Experimental
  description: Older adults in the intervention group will receive 10 sessions of life-review or reminiscence discussion with the trained young adult volunteers (1-1.5 hours each week for 10 weeks). At the end of the study, they create a digital storybook based on their previous discussion.
  arm group label: Social wellness with scrapbook or journal
  arm group type: Sham Comparator
  description: Older adults in the control group will have general social wellness discussion with the young adult volunteers. At the end of the study, they will create a journal/scrapbook.
  intervention type: Behavioral
  intervention name: Reminiscence with digital storytelling
  description: The older and young adult participants will be randomly assigned into the intervention (reminiscence) or control (social wellness) groups and then be randomly matched as dyads within each group. Older adults in the intervention group will receive 10 sessions of life-review with the trained young adult volunteers (1-1.5 hours each week for 10 weeks). During weeks 1-6, a life history interview will be carried out with different themes in each week: major turning points in life (W1), family history (W2), life/career accomplishments (W3), history of loves and hates (W4), stress experiences (W5), and meaning and purpose of life (W6). During weeks 7-10, the dyads will develop the DST together using tablets already owned by the UTA School of Social Work. The contents of sessions 7-10 will be structured as: outline/script, plan and storyboard (W7), film and record (W8), evaluate, integrate and finalize (W9), and publish/share (W10).
  arm group label: Reminiscence with digital storytelling
  intervention type: Behavioral
  intervention name: Social wellness with scrapbook or journal
  description: Older adults in the control group will have general social wellness discussion with the young adult volunteers, instead of structured reminiscence guidelines. The topics are: diet and health (week 1); exercise/activity and health (week 2); emotions and health (week 3); religious/spiritual practices and health (week 4); family/friend relationships and health (week 5); and social activities/engagement and health (week 6). For weeks 7-10, instead of DST, the young adult volunteer will work with the older adult to create an unstructured, non-digital record of the social visit related to wellness in later life (e.g. wellness scrapbook/journal).
  arm group label: Social wellness with scrapbook or journal
  criteria: 
  gender: All
  minimum age: 65 Years
  maximum age: N/A
  healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
  facility: 
  country: United States
  responsible party type: Principal Investigator
  investigator affiliation: The University of Texas at Arlington
  investigator full name: Ling Xu
  investigator title: Associate Professor
  mesh term: Alzheimer Disease
  sharing ipd: No