VolunteersNCT03453450
Exploring Volunteers' Experiences in Health TAPESTRY
An observational study of Volunteers, run by McMaster University at 1 site in Canada.
Trial summary
This study is meant to evaluate the Health TAPESTRY volunteer program. The objective of this study is to explore volunteer experiences in Health TAPESTRY in terms of implementation and to understand how participation in Health TAPESTRY as a volunteer is related to compassion, self-reported physical activity, quality… Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 18 years and olderHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- Volunteers
- How many people
- 89 participants
- Where
- 1 siteCanada
- Study dates
- 13 Mar 2018to 24 Sep 2020
- Phase
- Observational
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 18 years and older
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Adult, Older adult
Study population: Study participants are drawn from the Health TAPESTRY volunteer pool. All Health TAPESTRY volunteers will be invited into the evaluation, however only those volunteers who choose to take part in the evaluative component of the program will be included in the analysis. Although we aim to include as many Health TAPESTRY volunteers as possible, an achievable target is set at half of the volunteers (approximately 17) in each of the 6 sites being involved in the research component. The Volunteer Coordinator (VC) in each site will also be invited to attend an interview. The day-to-day management of volunteers within each site is managed by a VC from the Canadian Red Cross. The VC is the first contact for volunteers, and also the primary conduit that connects volunteers with clients.
Must be a Health TAPESTRY Volunteer or Volunteer Coordinator. There are no further inclusion or exclusion criteria.
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
Canada1 site
David Braley Health Sciences Centre, McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4K1
About this study
Official title: Exploring Volunteers' Experiences in Health TAPESTRY, a Primary Care-Based Program
This study is meant to evaluate the Health TAPESTRY volunteer program. The objective of this study is to explore volunteer experiences in Health TAPESTRY in terms of implementation and to understand how participation in Health TAPESTRY as a volunteer is related to compassion, self-reported physical activity, quality of life, and attitudes toward older adults.
Read the detailed description
Health TAPESTRY aims to help people stay healthier for longer in the places where they live. As a person-focused, proactive approach, Health TAPESTRY incorporates trained community volunteers into the primary care team in a way that is seamless and complementary to the essential work that clinicians are undertaking each day. In the program, volunteers conduct home visits with older adult clients, complete questionnaires, and connect their clients to primary care and community resources. This study offers the opportunity to fill a major gap in the literature by investigating the experiences of volunteers within Health TAPESTRY and the effect on them of participation as an intervention in its own right.
Specifically, the study seeks to understand volunteers' experiences in the program and evaluate any effects that volunteering with the program has on the volunteers including with the volunteers health and wellness (specifically physical activity and quality of life), empathy, and attitudes toward older adults. The investigators will also look at how the volunteers patterns of compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction might change throughout involvement in the program, and how that connects to volunteer demographic characteristics like age and gender, as well as other characteristics like empathy, how many home visits are conducted, and the initial motivation to volunteer with the program.
This program evaluation study will employ qualitative and quantitative data collection strategies including surveys, narratives written by volunteers, and volunteer focus groups.
- Conditions
- Volunteers
- Keywords
- Primary Care
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Health TAPESTRY volunteers | Volunteers in a primary care setting connecting with Health TAPESTRY clients | |
| Health TAPESTRY Volunteer Coordinators | The coordinators of volunteers |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Volunteers' Experiences
Volunteers' and volunteer coordinators' perceptions about their experiences in Health TAPESTRY overall, and specifically in regards to their understanding of their role; the training that was offered and how it did or did not support them in carrying out their role effectively; the process of engagement in the program from onboarding through the volunteer coordination to conducting home visits with clients; and the perceived outcomes of volunteering, including the impact of volunteering on their own health and wellness. This will be collected through qualitative data: focus groups for volunteers and interviews for volunteer coordinators at the 12-month mark, and volunteer narratives which are written post-client-visits.
Measured: 12 months
Secondary outcomes (7)
Compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue
The change in compassion over time during participation as a Health TAPESTRY volunteer will be measured via the Professional Quality of Life survey (ProQOL), which measures both compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction through 30-items on 5-point scales ranging from "never" to "very often". Collected every 3 months for a 12 month period.
Measured: Baseline, 3 month, 6 month, 9 month, 12 months
Physical Activity
Volunteers' physical activity will be measured via the International Physical Activity Survey (IPAQ). Respondents indicate how many days in the past seven days, and for how many minutes, they have engaged in vigorous and moderate intensity activity and walking activity. Scores for vigorous and moderate intensity activity, and walking activity are calculated by multiplying the days by the number of minutes on one day by the metabolic equivalent of task (MET) value for the activity. The MET values used for vigorous and moderate intensity activity and walking are 8.0, 4.0, and 3.3 respectively. Collected at baseline and 12 months.
Measured: Baseline, 12 months
Quality of Life
Volunteers' quality of life will be measured via the five-level EuroQol five-dimension (EQ-5D-5L). The EQ-5D-5L asks respondents to rate their current ability in five domains: mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain, and anxiety/depression, on a five-level scale. In addition, respondents are asked to rate their current health state on a scale from 0 ('worst health you can imagine') to 100 ('best health you can imagine'). A score from the five domains is calculated using a macro program and ranges from 0 to 1. Collected at baseline and 12 months.
Measured: Baseline, 12 months
Attitudes Toward Older Adults
Volunteers' attitudes toward older adults will be measured via the UCLA Geriatric Attitudes Scale.This 14-item survey measures volunteers' attitudes of older adults on a 5-point scale ranging from "strongly disagree" to "strongly agree". Collected at baseline and 12 months.
Measured: Baseline, 12 months
Empathy
Volunteer empathy will be measured via the Basic Empathy Scale (BES), a 20-item scale based on a two-factor model of empathy. It includes 9 items evaluating cognitive empathy and 11 items evaluating affective empathy. Participants are asked to respond to each item on a five-point scale ranging from "strongly disagree" to "strongly agree". With permission from the author, language on the BES was slightly altered to fit a North American audience. Collected at baseline and 12 months.
Measured: Baseline, 12 months
Reasons for Volunteering
A subscale of Clary \& Snyder's Volunteerism Questionnaire, the Reasons for Volunteering sub-scale has 20-items and asks participants to respond to each item on a 7-point scale ranging from "not at all important/accurate for you" to "extremely important/accurate for you". Collected at baseline.
Measured: Baseline
Outcomes of Volunteering
A subscale of Clary \& Snyder's Volunteerism Questionnaire, the Volunteering Outcomes sub-scale has 18 items, and primarily asks participants to respond to each item on a 7-point scale ranging from "strongly disagree" to "strongly agree". Collected at 12 months.
Measured: 12 Months
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted5 Mar 2018
- Study start13 Mar 2018
- Primary completion24 Sep 2020
- Study completion24 Sep 2020
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for VolunteersStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Observational
- Observational model
- Cohort
- Time perspective
- Other
- Enrolment
- 89 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- McMaster University
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- Canadian Red Cross, David Braley, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care
- Responsible party
- Sponsor
- Investigators
- Doug Oliver, MSc,MD,CCFP, Principal investigator, McMaster UniversityDee Mangin, MBChB,DPH,FRN, Principal investigator, McMaster University
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT03453450
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- 4301
- Status last verified
- Sep 2020
- First submitted
- 27 Feb 2018
- Last updated
- 21 Dec 2020
- Results posted
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- No
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 21 Dec 2020. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Exploring Volunteers' Experiences in Health TAPESTRY, a Primary Care-Based Program
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT03453450
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- 4301
- Conditions
- Volunteers
- Keywords
- Primary Care
- Study type
- Observational
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Enrolment
- 89 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- McMaster UniversityUniversity, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- Canadian Red Cross, David Braley, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care
- Study start
- 13 Mar 2018 (actual)
- Primary completion
- 24 Sep 2020 (actual)
- Study completion
- 24 Sep 2020 (actual)
- First posted
- 5 Mar 2018 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
This study is meant to evaluate the Health TAPESTRY volunteer program. The objective of this study is to explore volunteer experiences in Health TAPESTRY in terms of implementation and to understand how participation in Health TAPESTRY as a volunteer is related to compassion, self-reported physical activity, quality of life, and attitudes toward older adults.
Detailed description
Health TAPESTRY aims to help people stay healthier for longer in the places where they live. As a person-focused, proactive approach, Health TAPESTRY incorporates trained community volunteers into the primary care team in a way that is seamless and complementary to the essential work that clinicians are undertaking each day. In the program, volunteers conduct home visits with older adult clients, complete questionnaires, and connect their clients to primary care and community resources. This study offers the opportunity to fill a major gap in the literature by investigating the experiences of volunteers within Health TAPESTRY and the effect on them of participation as an intervention in its own right.
Specifically, the study seeks to understand volunteers' experiences in the program and evaluate any effects that volunteering with the program has on the volunteers including with the volunteers health and wellness (specifically physical activity and quality of life), empathy, and attitudes toward older adults. The investigators will also look at how the volunteers patterns of compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction might change throughout involvement in the program, and how that connects to volunteer demographic characteristics like age and gender, as well as other characteristics like empathy, how many home visits are conducted, and the initial motivation to volunteer with the program.
This program evaluation study will employ qualitative and quantitative data collection strategies including surveys, narratives written by volunteers, and volunteer focus groups.
Study design
- Observational model
- Cohort
- Time perspective
- Other
- Number of arms
- 2
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Health TAPESTRY volunteers | – | –Volunteers in a primary care setting connecting with Health TAPESTRY clients |
| Health TAPESTRY Volunteer Coordinators | – | –The coordinators of volunteers |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Age groups
- Adult, Older adult
- Study population
- Study participants are drawn from the Health TAPESTRY volunteer pool. All Health TAPESTRY volunteers will be invited into the evaluation, however only those volunteers who choose to take part in the evaluative component of the program will be included in the analysis. Although we aim to include as many Health TAPESTRY volunteers as possible, an achievable target is set at half of the volunteers (approximately 17) in each of the 6 sites being involved in the research component. The Volunteer Coordinator (VC) in each site will also be invited to attend an interview. The day-to-day management of volunteers within each site is managed by a VC from the Canadian Red Cross. The VC is the first contact for volunteers, and also the primary conduit that connects volunteers with clients.
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Primary outcome
Volunteers' Experiences
Time frame: 12 months
Volunteers' and volunteer coordinators' perceptions about their experiences in Health TAPESTRY overall, and specifically in regards to their understanding of their role; the training that was offered and how it did or did not support them in carrying out their role effectively; the process of engagement in the program from onboarding through the volunteer coordination to conducting home visits with clients; and the perceived outcomes of volunteering, including the impact of volunteering on their own health and wellness. This will be collected through qualitative data: focus groups for volunteers and interviews for volunteer coordinators at the 12-month mark, and volunteer narratives which are written post-client-visits.
7 secondary outcomes
Compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue
Time frame: Baseline, 3 month, 6 month, 9 month, 12 months
Physical Activity
Time frame: Baseline, 12 months
Quality of Life
Time frame: Baseline, 12 months
Attitudes Toward Older Adults
Time frame: Baseline, 12 months
Empathy
Time frame: Baseline, 12 months
Reasons for Volunteering
Time frame: Baseline
Outcomes of Volunteering
Time frame: 12 Months
Results and safety
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 21 Dec 2020.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: No
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
Doug Oliver, MSc,MD,CCFP principal investigator
McMaster University
Dee Mangin, MBChB,DPH,FRN principal investigator
McMaster University
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
An observational study of Volunteers, run by McMaster University at 1 site in Canada.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 21 Dec 2020. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in Canada. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Volunteers' Experiences (time frame: 12 months). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 21 Dec 2020; AzTrials last refreshed its copy on 31 Oct 2026.