Registry update — unassessed
A Randomised Pilot Study of Navigator and Coach Support for Participation in Community Activities to Promote Physical Activity and Social Contact in Persons Aged 65 Years and Older
Trial registry update: NOT_YET_RECRUITING. No results reported in the supplied registry record.
RCTMinor significance
What this changes
The finding has not established an approved change to our evidence assessment.
Source date: Sep 23, 2026 · Discovered: Sep 24, 2026 · Assessed: — · Research update
What it does not prove
- The effectiveness of navigator support on physical activity, social contact, or frailty outcomes cannot be evaluated from this abstract, which reports only the protocol; no results are presented. The pragmatic pilot design was chosen due to uncertainties in intervention delivery, meaning this is not a definitive efficacy trial. Whether the intervention works better than usual care, what magnitude of benefit might be achievable, or whether effects persist beyond the study period are all unknown from this abstract.
Extracted from supplied source material; model confidence is not a measured probability of correctness.
Study details
- Design
- Rct
- Sample size
- —
- Duration
- —
- Population
- Persons aged 65 years and older with low physical and/or social activity; Swiss population context mentioned with 12% frail and 46% pre-frail.
- Primary outcome
- Promotion of physical activity and social contact in persons aged 65+ (implied from title; not explicitly defined in abstract as a measured outcome).
- Effect size
- —
- Significance
- Not reported
- Journal
- Bastiaan Van Grootven
- Published
- Sep 23, 2026
Sources
Primary source
- Bastiaan Van Grootven ↗Clinical trial
Recorded source passages
Abstract or registry material supplied for assessment; source version 1. This is not a claim of full-text review.
Frailty is a multidimensional syndrome in which a person accumulates age-related deficits across life domains, increasingly including social components such as social isolation. An estimated 12% of the Swiss population aged 65+ is frail and a further 46% pre-frail
older adults with low physical and/or social activity are systematically identified during routine contacts, a values-based conversation clarifies what matters to the person, the person is matched and referred to existing community activities, and a navigator (a social work professional acting as link worker) provides behavioural, practical and emotional support for initial and continued participation
a pilot study with a pragmatic randomised trial design is implemented
Assessment history
Discussion (0)
One thread per scientific event, no matter how many outlets covered it.
Sign in to join the discussion.
No comments yet
Be the first to weigh in on this evidence.