Developing and Testing Training Resources to Improve Social Connectedness With Homebound Older Adults Who Receive Home-Delivered Meals.
| Autor: | Bunker JN; School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA., Gans KM; Department of Human Development & Family Science, Institute for Collaboration in Health, Intervention and Policy, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA., Smith KC; School of Public Health, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA., Thomas KS; School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society [J Appl Gerontol] 2024 Dec 10, pp. 7334648241306176. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Dec 10. |
| DOI: | 10.1177/07334648241306176 |
| Abstrakt: | Social isolation is disproportionately experienced by homebound older adults, including those who receive home-delivered meals. We used a three-phase, human-centered design approach to create and evaluate training resources focused on social isolation for meal-delivery drivers. We hypothesized that these training resources would increase meal-delivery drivers' behavioral intentions to have meaningful interactions with their clients. Working with subject matter experts and meal-delivery drivers, our team developed and produced a training video and website and evaluated the resources with a sample of meal-delivery drivers in Rhode Island, Texas, and Mississippi via an online survey. Respondents ( n = 94) were 64% female, 65% age 55+, and 79% white. Respondents reported improved ( p < .001) agreement with the main outcome, "I intend to regularly have meaningful social conversations with the clients I see." Through these scalable training resources, drivers may increase their intention to have meaningful conversations with older adults at risk for social isolation. Competing Interests: Declaration of Conflicting InterestsThe author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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