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Filter by:This project aims to test a culturally appropriate assistive technology (AT) intervention called VIVE-AT to help older Latinos with disabilities improve their function and quality of life. The researchers will first refine the VIVE-AT program based on feedback from a Community Advisory Board and focus groups with older Latinos with disabilities. Then, 76 older Latinos with disabilities will be recruited from a primary care clinic serving low-income communities in Puerto Rico. They will be randomly assigned to either receive the VIVE-AT intervention in the primary care clinic or be placed on a waitlist with regular phone calls. All participants will continue to receive standard care at the clinic.
At discharge after a hospitalization, many older people are not as able as before their hospital stay and have difficulty performing their daily activities at home. For example, washing and dressing themselves, housework or shopping are often more difficult after discharge from hospital. However, most older people do not receive any support in regaining their physical status and self-reliance. As a result, they often need permanent help from informal or professional caregivers. Their quality of life is also impacted and they have an increased risk of new hospital admissions. Rehabilitation centers and hospital rehabilitation wards help the elderly to regain their daily functioning, but the number of places is very limited. This means that support for home rehabilitation is necessary for the vast majority of older people (almost 82,000 people per year). However, most of the time there is no support for home rehabilitation and the effect of such home rehabilitation programs has been little studied. Although studies show that home rehabilitation can improve physical functioning, the effect on impairments in daily activities and the quality of life of older people are not clear. In a future multicenter RCT, the investigators want to study whether training and guidance by a physiotherapist contributes to the recovery of older people after discharge from hospital. Patients will either receive standard care after hospitalization discharge, or intensive guidance from a physiotherapist. The patients guided by the physiotherapist are trained and supervised three times a week, for six weeks, to improve their muscle strength, balance, walking and mobility. The aim of the intensive home rehabilitation program is that the individual benefits from it in the longer term. Therefore, whether individuals who received the program are less limited in their daily functioning than those who did not receive the intensive rehabilitation program is checked after six months. In addition, the quality of life, physical functioning and healthcare costs for these two groups are also compared. To ensure that the study is feasible, a small pilot study will first be performed. Here, the aim is to assess the feasibility of recruitment (screening and retaining participants, reasons for refusal and participant profiles), study procedures and intervention. This includes time registration by the study team and physiotherapists, assessment of study burden and experiences with the execution of the protocol. The findings of this pilot study will help deciding about progressing to a future definitive RCT.
This study will be conducted in a hospital in Spain to investigate how a special intervention using immersive virtual reality technology can benefit hospitalized older adults with difficulties in their daily functionality. The main objective of this study is to evaluate whether a cognitive stimulation intervention through immersive virtual reality, along with specific physical exercises, can improve the cognitive and physical function of hospitalized older patients. It is expected that this innovative intervention will have a positive impact on the quality of life of these patients. Participants eligible for the study must be over 75 years old, have severe functional dependency upon hospital admission, and be willing to participate. Those with severe dementia or other terminal illnesses will be excluded. Participants will be randomly assigned to one of four study groups: a control group without intervention and three intervention groups, including viewing Spanish landscapes through virtual reality, performing specific physical exercises, or a combination of both interventions. At the end of the study, various aspects such as cognitive and physical function, mood, quality of life, muscle strength, and acceptance of virtual reality technology by patients will be evaluated. This study aims to provide new insights into the care of hospitalized older adults and explore innovative ways to improve their well-being during their hospital stay
The purpose of this mixed methods study is to adapt CAPABLE as CAPABLE Transplant to accomplish two things: 1) To resolve barriers to being classified as active on the Kidney Transplant (KT) waitlist and 2) as a surgical prehabilitation intervention targeting the pre-frail/ frail KT waitlist population. It consists of two phases- an open label pilot and a randomized waitlist control trial.
The purpose of this 32 week study is to use an innovative experimental design known as SMART (Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial), which will allow us to determine the best way to sequence the delivery of teleexercise (referred to as an adaptive intervention), combined with predictive analytics on participant adherence in a stepped program of physical activity interventions. All 257 participants will have access to a library of recorded video exercise content, and a weekly wellness article. Some participants will receive health coaching calls (1st randomization). Analytic data will be used to determine which participants are responding or not responding to the intervention. Participants not responding after 4 weeks will receive either live one on one or group exercise training (2nd randomization). After 8 weeks, the participant will receive only pre recorded exercise content and articles for another 8 weeks. After final surveys, participants will have open access to the website for another 16 weeks where we will passively observe their fitbit and website data. The study outcomes are: The effectiveness of the adaptive interventions Exploring mediating and moderating variables Sensitivity analysis of the predictive analytics
This study aims to develop and validate the Italian version of the modified Barthel Index (mBI-Italian), through the following steps: - translation of the mBI into Italian, by using the froward-backward translation approach, to produce a pre-final mBI-Italian - pre-pilot testing of the pre-final mBI-Italian in a sample of ten health professionals (physicians and physiotherapists), ten subjects who had a stroke, and 10 caregivers, i.e. subjects who take care of a person who had a stroke. All participants will be asked to judge the clarity of each item of the scale, including scoring instructions - evaluation of the metric properties (internal consistency, inter- and intra-rater reliability, validity and responsiveness) of the final mBI-Italian in a sample of subjects admitted to the Don Gnocchi Foundation in Florence for rehabilitation after stroke
This study aims to develop and validate the Italian version of the Motricity Index (MI-Italian), through the following steps: - translation of the MI into Italian, by using the forward-backward translation approach, to produce a pre-final MI-Italian - pre-pilot testing of the pre-final MI-Italian in a sample of ten health professionals (physicians and physiotherapists), who will be asked to judge the clarity of each item of the MI, including scoring instructions, to produce a final MI-Italian - evaluation of the metric properties (internal consistency, inter- and intra-rater reliability, validity and responsiveness) of the final MI-Italian in a sample of subjects admitted to the Don Gnocchi Foundation in Florence for rehabilitation after stroke.
According to the INE in 2021, more than 9 million people are currently over 65 years of age. This means that more than 1 million are frail and almost 4 million are pre-fragile only in Spain. Frailty is the prelude to disability and dependency, but unlike these, it is treatable and preventable. Currently, it is known that the best treatment for frailty is physical exercise and physical activity. The problem arises from the need that exists in the health system to prescribe individualized and patient-centered exercise, with the use of scarce resources (time, personnel, tools) and in a simple way in clinical practice. Additionally, the system needs tools that help us know (and predict) if this exercise prescription is efficient. Furthermore, frailty is a multidimensional syndrome, for which a comprehensive approach is necessary. The combined study of blood and digital biomarkers, as well as the plethora of dimensions evaluated (muscle and physical activity, cognitive, lifestyle, clinical, body composition, social, sleep), constitute an optimal approach that would provide a unique opportunity to understand prevention and treatment of unsuccessful aging and frailty. The PRICA-POWFRAIL project aims to examine the feasibility of an educational intervention to change lifestyle habits as well as the effect of a referral algorithm to an exercise program and lifestyle changes focused on treating specific deficits of low muscle power, powerful predictor of adverse health events. The subsequent referral will be implemented in a supervised exercise program at the functional, cognitive muscle level and in older people at risk of dependence. Secondarily, the effect of this intervention on blood biomarkers (at a genetic, epigenetic and metabolomic level), physical health (functional capacity, blood pressure, body composition) and mental health (quality of life and depression), as well as on other risk factors (genetic and biological) for the development of frailty. A total of 110 people older than 70 years of age in previous stages of dependency will be randomly distributed among the group of an educational program, the intervention group with supervised physical exercise, a intervention group with both previous educational and exercise programs and the control group. The design will include a 10- week intervention with pre and post-intervention measurement phases and a third measurement (retest) 12 months after completion. The supervised physical exercise program will be of a multi-component type including cardiovascular, muscular, coordinative and balance work, and a progression will be established in the different load parameters (frequency, volume, intensity, density). This will allow us to understand from a very complete perspective the causes and mechanisms underlying this response. The PRICA-POWFRAIL project Will mean a significant increase in scientific knowledge about the response and response rate to ultra-individualized exercise programs directed as a therapeutic measure in people at risk of dependency from a multidimensional perspective. In addition, the project will have a relevant impact at the social and economic level by transferring the findings of the study to the social and health field through the agents and means provided in it.
The aim of this study: It was aimed to observe the effects of intraoperative and preoperative PECS II block on postoperative pain, amount of analgesic use and shoulder joint range of motion in patients who underwent breast cancer surgery. This research was planned as an observational study. For this purpose, patients who underwent breast cancer surgery in İzmir Bakırçay University Çiğli Training and Research Hospital General Surgery Clinic will be included in the study at the 1st hour after the operation. Patients who underwent preoperative Interpectoral - Pectoserratus Plan Block in the operation will be included in Group 1, patients who have been applied Interpectoral - Pectoserratus Plan Block between the muscle planes by the intraoperative surgeon will be included in Group 2, and patients who have not applied any block will be included in Group 3. Pain numerical rating scale (numering Rating Scale) at postoperative 1st, 2nd, 6th, 12th and 24th hours in patients, patient recovery scores (QoR15 Turkish version), amount of tramadol used in patient-controlled analgesia, time to first rescue analgesia, adverse events (pneumothorax, nausea, vomiting, itching, hematoma, allergic reactions) and quality of life, shoulder joint range of motion, hand grip strength (also on day 1) and disability level will be measured on postoperative day 10. H0- Preoperative interpectoral - pectoserratus plane block affects the level of postoperative pain. H1- Preoperativeinterpectoral - pectoserratus plane block does not affect the level of postoperative pain. H2- Intraoperative interpectoral - pectoserratus plane block affects postoperative pain level H3- Intraoperative interpectoral - pectoserratus plane blockk does not affect the level of postoperative pain.
This research project is part of the process of generating scientific evidence, on whether the clinical results obtained, in the treatment of the consequences of aging on mobility, pain and disability, are better if therapeutic exercise programs are added sessions of manual therapy and training in pain awareness, or on the contrary, do not significantly modify the effect of exercise programs.