Building Community Capacity for Disability Prevention for Minority Elders (Positive Minds - Strong Bodies)

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Depression, Anxiety, Physical Disability

In brief

The primary intervention offered through this study is a manualized and culturally adapted CBT intervention combined with an exercise intervention, administered by trained Community Health Workers and exercise trainers to ethnic minority elders with moderate to severe mood symptoms and at risk of disability. In addition to the intervention implementation, the study examines how to successfully build collaborative research for the provision of evidence-based mental health and disability prevention treatments for ethnic minority elders in community-based settings. Thus, the study will evaluate the three components necessary for a successful intervention: efficacy, since the intervention must work, acceptability among clients and partnering agencies, and feasibility and sustainability within the organization.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02317432

Run by

Massachusetts General Hospital

People needed

307

Starts

2015-07-01

Expected to finish

2019-03-01

Last updated by the study team

2021-04-28

Who can join

Age: 60 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Age 60+
• Fluency in English, Spanish, Mandarin or Cantonese
• Score above threshold on PHQ-9, GAD-7, or Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-Short Form)
• Score within threshold of SPPB

You may not qualify if…

• Participants will be excluded if there is evidence of:
• Current substance use disorders
• Current or last 3 months of specialty mental health treatment
• Evidence that patient the participant lacks capacity to consent assessed using the UCSD Brief Assessment of Capacity to Consent.
• Suicidal risk (score of 4 or 5 on the Paykel suicide questionnaire), whereby participant will be referred for immediate treatment to specialty care
• If the participant's physician advises against strenuous physical exercise.
• Exclusion from the disability component will also happen if the participant is home-bound, has an acute or an exacerbated chronic disease, or has neuro-musculoskeletal impairment that prevents them from participating in the exercises

Where it is running

• King David Foundation — Aventura, Florida, United States
• Greater Boston Chinese Golden Age Center — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• MGH Chelsea — Chelsea, Massachusetts, United States
• Kit Clark Senior Services — Dorchester, Massachusetts, United States
• MGH Revere — Revere, Massachusetts, United States
• Central Harlem Senior Citizens' Center — New York, New York, United States
• Hamilton Madison City Hall Senior Center — New York, New York, United States
• University of Puerto Rico — San Juan, PR, Puerto Rico

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