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The Baltimore Experience Corps Study

NCT00380562 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 702

Last updated 2013-09-19

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of the Experience Corps program in preventing or delaying physical disability in older adults, by studying the effects of volunteerism on physical, social and cognitive well-being.

Conditions

  • Aging
  • Generativity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Experience Corps

High intensity volunteering (15 hours a week or more) over a two year time period working with children in grades K-3 in Baltimore City Schools. Controls are assigned to usual activities for two years and then offered opportunity to volunteer with children at the end of two year.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Retirement Research Foundation

    collaborator OTHER

  • Abell Foundation

    collaborator OTHER

  • National Institute on Aging (NIA)

    collaborator NIH

  • Goldseker Foundation

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • The Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, Inc.

    collaborator OTHER

  • Johns Hopkins University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • George Rebok, PhD · Johns Hopkins University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-07-31
Primary Completion
2011-12-31
Completion
2011-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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