{"doi":"10.1016/j.conctc.2024.101308","title":"Methods and baseline characteristics for a social engagement technology-based randomized controlled trial for older adults","abstract":"Background: Growing evidence suggests that increasing opportunities for social engagement has the potential to support successful aging. However, many older adults may have limited access to in-person social engagement opportunities due to barriers such as transportation. We outline the development, design, methodology, and baseline characteristics of a randomized controlled trial that assessed the benefits of a social engagement intervention delivered through the OneClick video conferencing platform to older adults with varying levels of cognitive functioning. Methods: Community-dwelling older adults with and without cognitive challenges were randomly assigned to a social engagement intervention group or a waitlist control group. Participants were asked to attend twice-weekly social engagement events for 8 weeks via OneClick. Outcomes included social engagement and technology acceptance for both groups at baseline, week-4, and week-8 assessments. As an extension, the waitlist control group had an opportunity to participate in the intervention, with outcomes assessed at weeks 12 and 16. Results: We randomly assigned 99 participants (mean age = 74.1 ± 6.7, range: 60-99), with 50 in the immediate intervention group and 49 in the waitlist control group. About half of the participants reported living alone (53.5%), with a third (31%) falling into the cognitively impaired range on global cognitive screening. The groups did not differ at baseline on any of the outcome measures. Conclusions: Outcomes from this study will provide important information regarding the feasibility and efficacy of providing technology-based social engagement interventions to older adults with a range of cognitive abilities.","journal":"Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications","year":2024,"id":480119,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":1,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9485,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2024-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1229508,"name":"George Mois","orcid":"0000-0001-5414-6097","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":735871,"name":"Shraddha A. Shende","orcid":"0000-0001-9844-7078","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":440974,"name":"Dillon Myers","orcid":null,"position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":986544,"name":"Margaret Danilovich","orcid":"0000-0003-3468-2495","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":341369,"name":"Wendy A. Rogers","orcid":"0000-0002-0787-2130","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":440178,"name":"Raksha A. Mudar","orcid":"0000-0003-0170-0554","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":735870,"name":"Elizabeth Lydon","orcid":"0000-0002-4969-2269","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":53,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T02:06:58.305365Z","pmid":"38841566","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}