NCT04900272

Intelligent Personal Assistant for Managing Depression in Homebound Older Adults

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 21 (actual)
• Sponsor: Northwestern University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to design a companion booklet and pilot test it with a voice-controlled intelligent personal assistants (VIPA), like Google Home or Amazon Alexa, to provide homebound older adult patients with skills and tools to help manage social isolation.

Detailed description

The objective of this pilot study is to design a companion booklet and pilot test it with a voice-controlled intelligent personal assistant (VIPA), Google Home or Amazon Alexa, to provide patients with skills and tools to help manage their social isolation. The companion booklet is a document that will be created using feedback obtained from a panel of geriatric experts, highlighting features of the VIPA that may be most beneficial to socially-isolated older adults. It will be submitted to the IRB for approval once finalized. The specific aims of this project are to: Aim 1: Design a companion booklet to be used in conjunction with a VIPA (Google Home/Amazon Alexa) for improving social isolation and communication among homebound older adults, defined as someone who is unable to leave the home without assistance of a device or another person, due to a physical or cognitive condition. Aim 2: Assess the feasibility and implementation of the VIPA (Google Home/Amazon Alexa) and the companion booklet and its impact on clinical and functional outcomes for older adults with social isolation.

Conditions

• Aging
• Physical Dependence

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	VIPA and companion booklet	Participants will be asked to use the VIPA and accompanying second iteration of the instructional booklet focused on social-isolation. These participants will be surveyed over the phone for 16 weeks (baseline, 2 weeks, 4 weeks, 8 weeks, and 16 weeks) with outcomes measured at each time point.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-09-01
• Primary completion: 2022-07-15
• Completion: 2022-07-15
• First posted: 2021-05-25
• Last updated: 2024-06-20
• Results posted: 2024-06-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States