NCT05438134

Enhancing Resilience in Senior Community Residents

Enhancing Resilience in Senior Living Community Residents: A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 288 (actual)
• Sponsor: Massachusetts General Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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.

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Quality of Life
• Stress, Psychological

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	SMART-3RP Group Intervention	Nine 1.5 hour group sessions focusing on developing: 1. An understanding of stress physiology and the physiology of the relaxation response; 2. A regular practice of eliciting the relaxation response; and 3. Cognitive behavioral and positive psychology/resilience skills. Participants receive a copy of the SMART-3RP session manual and audio recorded guided meditations for independent relaxation practice. Participants are encouraged to practice eliciting the relaxation response daily throughout the study, using the audio recordings or other mind body techniques. Participants will use a practice log to track their practice.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-06-24
• Primary completion: 2023-04-05
• Completion: 2023-04-05
• First posted: 2022-06-29
• Last updated: 2023-11-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States