The helping older people engage (HOPE) study: Protocol & COVID modifications for a randomized trial
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SciScore for 10.1101/2022.04.25.22274283: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Ethics IRB: All procedures were approved by the Research Subjects Review Board at the University of Rochester.
Consent: The baseline interview includes a structured protocol for assessing capacity for informed consent, followed by assessment of additional exclusion criteria and baseline characteristics (see Figure 1, SPIRIT schedule of enrollment, interventions, and assessments).Sex as a biological variable not detected. Randomization Study design, setting, ethical considerations: This is a randomized trial registered at clinicaltrials.gov (NCT03343483). Blinding Neither assessors nor subjects are blind to condition. Power Analysis Sample size calculation: A power analysis was conducted to test treatment … SciScore for 10.1101/2022.04.25.22274283: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Ethics IRB: All procedures were approved by the Research Subjects Review Board at the University of Rochester.
Consent: The baseline interview includes a structured protocol for assessing capacity for informed consent, followed by assessment of additional exclusion criteria and baseline characteristics (see Figure 1, SPIRIT schedule of enrollment, interventions, and assessments).Sex as a biological variable not detected. Randomization Study design, setting, ethical considerations: This is a randomized trial registered at clinicaltrials.gov (NCT03343483). Blinding Neither assessors nor subjects are blind to condition. Power Analysis Sample size calculation: A power analysis was conducted to test treatment effects by the intent-to-treat (ITT) analysis for the primary outcomes. Table 2: Resources
No key resources detected.
Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:This study design has both strengths and limitations that will impact interpretations of results and next steps. The need to tailor the volunteering activity to individual preferences is the foundation of the national RSVP model and was needed to promote acceptability of the project; while a single volunteer placement for all volunteers would have reduced heterogeneity in the intervention, such a restriction was both not feasible and not representative of volunteering programs available in the community. The RCT design increases internal validity, but introduces other challenges, including the fact that participating in a research study is itself a volunteer opportunity that provides ongoing social contact (potentially confounding conditions and attenuating effects). Our study was also impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, including a pause in enrollment (though relatively brief, only two months), as well as changes in the types and variety of volunteering placements offered. Given that our study was not designed to specifically study loneliness in SGM older adults, our study interventions were not tailored to this group; this includes a lack of SGM-specific volunteer opportunities (e.g., volunteering for SGM community organizations), which is a feature of volunteering shown to increase SGM community connectedness,79 which in turn, may be an effective strategy to reduce loneliness.93 Without this increase in SGM community connectedness, SGM volunteers may not experience the hypo...
Results from TrialIdentifier: We found the following clinical trial numbers in your paper:
Identifier Status Title NCT03343483 Recruiting The Helping Older People Engage Project: Improving Social We… Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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- No protocol registration statement was detected.
Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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