Caregiver-aided Powered Wheelchair Skills

Caregivers Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Extent to Which Caregivers Enhance the Wheelchair Skills of Powered Wheelchair Users: a Descriptive Cross-sectional Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02972307
• Other study ID #: 1020645
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: November 18, 2016
• Last updated: January 10, 2018
• Start date: July 2016
• Est. completion date: June 2017

Study information

• Verified date: January 2018
• Source: Nova Scotia Health Authority
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

There has been only minimal research on wheelchair skills by the caregivers of manual or powered wheelchair. There are no published data on the extent to which caregivers can enhance the mobility of powered wheelchair users. The primary objective of this study is to test the hypothesis that caregivers enhance the wheelchair skills capacity, confidence and performance of the powered wheelchair users to whom they provide assistance. Our secondary objective is to add to the literature on the measurement properties of the wheelchair skills test (questionnaire and capability version) for powered wheelchair users and their caregivers.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 152
• Est. completion date: June 2017
• Est. primary completion date: February 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• = 18 years of age

• able to communicate in English and/or French (depending upon the site)

• live within 50 km of the research centre

• be willing to participate (as evidenced by completion of the assessment)

• be able to set a scheduled time for the study visit when both the caregiver and wheelchair user will be present and provide informed consent

Caregivers:

• must be an unpaid caregiver (e.g. a family member or friend)

• spend an average total of at least 2 hours per week with the powered wheelchair user that includes powered wheelchair mobility.

Wheelchair user:

• must have his/her own powered wheelchair

• use the powered wheelchair for at least 6 hours per week

• have a caregiver who spends an average total of at least 2 hours per week with the powered wheelchair user that includes powered wheelchair mobility.

Exclusion Criteria:

• have unstable medical conditions (e.g. angina, seizures) that might make the use of a powered wheelchair dangerous

• emotional problems (e.g. severe anxiety, depression) that might make participation unsafe or unpleasant

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Caregivers

Intervention

Other:
• wheelchair skills
the extent to which caregivers enhance the wheelchair skills of powered wheelchair users

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Canada	Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre	Halifax	Nova Scotia

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Nova Scotia Health Authority	Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Canada, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Wheelchair Skills Test (WST)	Objective (WST) and Questionnaire (WST-Q) versions	one day
Secondary	Questionnaire	Qualitative open ended questions on wheelchair skills	one day

External Links

•   publication of results