NCT05831475

LEAPTogether: An Intergenerational Intervention to Address Loneliness and Social Isolation

Leveraging Exercise to Age in Place (LEAP) Together: An Intergenerational Intervention to Address Loneliness and Social Isolation

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 80 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Older adult participants will engage in exercise videos twice a week for 8 weeks either while paired with a peer (same age group) or paired with a younger adult with the ability to simultaneously video chat while exercising.

Detailed description

Participation in this study includes: * Completing assessments at baseline (start of study), 8 weeks, and 16 weeks * Initial meeting with an Exercise Physiologist to determine exercise interests and preferences * Being matched with an exercise partner * Virtually meeting with partner to engage in exercise videos via the FlexTogether platform (meet twice a week for a total of 8 weeks) * Attend a live group class once a month * Completing an exit interview Primary Objective: To assess feasibility by monitoring adherence to an 8-week virtual paired exercise program for older adults Secondary Objectives: 1. To mechanistically investigate the key social pairing components (i.e., older adults together, younger and older adult pairing) within a virtual program necessary to enhance social connectedness, decrease loneliness, improve well-being, and increase physical activity in older adults and younger adult participants in the short-term (pre-post) through surveys and qualitative interviews 2. To mechanistically investigate the key social pairing components (i.e., older adults together, younger and older adult pairing) within a virtual program necessary to enhance social connectedness, decrease loneliness, improve well-being, and increase physical activity in older adults and younger adult participants in the long-term (8 weeks post-intervention / 18 weeks on study) through surveys and qualitative interviews

Conditions

• Social Isolation
• Loneliness
• Intergenerational Relations

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Intergenerational Virtual Paired Exercise	Participants will be paired with someone older/ younger and will engage in exercise videos with the ability to simultaneously video chat with their partner while exercising. Participants will log on with their partner twice a week for 8 weeks.
BEHAVIORAL	Peer Virtual Paired Exercise	Participants will be paired with someone of the same age group and will engage in exercise videos with the ability to simultaneously video chat with their partner while exercising. Participants will log on with their partner twice a week for 8 weeks.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-09-07
• Primary completion: 2025-05-01
• Completion: 2025-10-01
• First posted: 2023-04-26
• Last updated: 2024-08-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States