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Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Meeting abstract › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Who accesses befriending services near the end of life?
T2 - baseline results from a wait-list controlled trial (ELSA) of a volunteer befriending service in the last year of life
AU - Walshe, Catherine Elizabeth
AU - Payne, Sheila Alison
AU - Preston, Nancy Jean
AU - Perez Algorta, Guillermo Daniel
AU - Dodd, Steven Robert
AU - Ockenden, N.
AU - Hill, M.
PY - 2016/6
Y1 - 2016/6
N2 - Background: Volunteers are central to the provision of much end of life care, but their impact is little understood. Volunteer befriending services could work to reduce isolation, meet emotional needs and maintain a sense of communityconnectedness.The primary aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of receiving care from a volunteer service plus usual care at improving quality of life than usual care alone for adults in the last year of life. Here we provide descriptivebaseline data on trial participants.Study participants: Patients (estimated to be in their last year of life) referred to volunteer befriending services across 11 end of life care providers in England.Study design and methods: A wait-list controlled trial, with participants randomly allocated to intervention (immediate receipt of volunteering intervention) or wait list arm (four week wait for intervention). Data collectionat baseline, 4, 8 (12) weeks: WHO QOL BREF, Loneliness scale, mMOS-SS, social networks. Intention to treat analysis includes fitting a linear mixed effect model to each outcome variable at 4, 8 and 12 weeks. ISRCTN 12929812
AB - Background: Volunteers are central to the provision of much end of life care, but their impact is little understood. Volunteer befriending services could work to reduce isolation, meet emotional needs and maintain a sense of communityconnectedness.The primary aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of receiving care from a volunteer service plus usual care at improving quality of life than usual care alone for adults in the last year of life. Here we provide descriptivebaseline data on trial participants.Study participants: Patients (estimated to be in their last year of life) referred to volunteer befriending services across 11 end of life care providers in England.Study design and methods: A wait-list controlled trial, with participants randomly allocated to intervention (immediate receipt of volunteering intervention) or wait list arm (four week wait for intervention). Data collectionat baseline, 4, 8 (12) weeks: WHO QOL BREF, Loneliness scale, mMOS-SS, social networks. Intention to treat analysis includes fitting a linear mixed effect model to each outcome variable at 4, 8 and 12 weeks. ISRCTN 12929812
U2 - 10.1177/0269216316646056
DO - 10.1177/0269216316646056
M3 - Meeting abstract
VL - 30
JO - Palliative Medicine
JF - Palliative Medicine
SN - 0269-2163
IS - 6
ER -