The Experience Corps Trial is a program project to evaluate the potential benefits to older adults and to the Baltimore City schools in which they volunteer, through a model of generativity in an aging society. Projects within the P01 will draw data from two related, randomized controlled trials - one randomizing older adults to participate in the Experience Corps (EC) program or to a control condition (involving referral for low intensity volunteer activity), the other randomizing schools to receive the EC program or not. Projects 1, 3, and 4 will use data from the randomized trial of older adults to evaluate hypothesized benefits to physical and cognitive functioning (Projects 1 and 3), as well as social and psychological functioning (Project 4). Project 2 will focus on school outcomes, while Project 5 focuses more broadly on evaluating program cost-effectiveness from a societal perspective. The Data Collection and Data Management Core will serve the needs of all five projects. Our intention is to promote coordinated, efficient collection of high-quality data for analysis.
Major specific aims are to: 1) Coordinate data collection needs and design instruments that allow efficient and accurate collection of data;2) Collect data for all program projects and perform data entry;3) Manage IRB documentation and prepare the protocol, consent, and manual of procedures;4) Create, provide technological support for, and perform quality control on a program-wide database system;5) Obtain electronic school and program records;6) Extract data sets for analysis and create HIPAA-compliant de-identified files for data sharing.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Type
Research Program Projects (P01)
Project #
5P01AG027735-04
Application #
7883378
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZAG1)
Project Start
Project End
Budget Start
2009-07-01
Budget End
2010-06-30
Support Year
4
Fiscal Year
2009
Total Cost
$842,898
Indirect Cost
Name
Johns Hopkins University
Department
Type
DUNS #
001910777
City
Baltimore
State
MD
Country
United States
Zip Code
21218
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