Outcomes of Compliance With Brace Wear in Clubfoot

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

It has been shown that compliance with brace wear can significantly improve the treatment outcome of idiopathic clubfoot deformities. Noncompliance rates have been estimated to be around 30-41% with initial orthosis wear after successful treatment with serial castings. These studies have depended on family logs and not objective data. With the development of a monitoring device, this study hopes to examine: (1) actual patient compliance, (2) comparisons of actual wear time and assumed wear time and (3) the relationship of patient wear with clinical outcomes.

Hypothesis:

Actual patient compliance in foot abduction orthoses (FAO) wear is less than self-reported compliance and noncompliance is correlated to future surgeries.

Clinical Trial Description

It is necessary that treatment teams avoid making any assumptions about patient compliance. This study will objectively measure brace wear-rate in patients with clubfoot that have already been prescribed a foot ankle orthosis. The use of a monitoring device will be able to give objective data on actual patient compliance with brace wear. It is hypothesized that objective compliance data will allow physicians to better assess the patient's therapy progress and outcome, troubleshoot problems or issues associated with barriers to brace wear, and better educate families confronted with having a child with clubfoot. Long term goals will then attempt to determine whether certain brace designs can increase wear time thus decreasing the rate of clubfoot recurrence. ;

Study Design

Observational Model: Case-Only, Time Perspective: Prospective

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Clinical Trial Details

NCT number	NCT01481324
Study type	Observational
Source	Shriners Hospitals for Children
Contact
Status	Completed
Phase	N/A
Start date	October 2009
Completion date	October 2013

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