French-Canadian Version of the Wheelchair Skills Program (WSP)

Disabled Persons Clinical Trial

Official title:

Translation, Validation and Evaluation of the Efficacy of the French-Canadian Version of the Wheelchair Skills Program (WSP)

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00400244
• Other study ID #: CDHA009
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: November 15, 2006
• Last updated: September 28, 2009
• Start date: January 2006
• Est. completion date: April 2008

Study information

• Verified date: January 2009
• Source: Nova Scotia Health Authority
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Canada: Health Canada
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this project is to develop French Canadian versions of the Wheelchair Skills Program (WSP). Translating a measurement instrument in the field of biomedical sciences requires not only the language to be taken into account but also the cultural context. We will determine the measurement properties of the WST-F and complete the randomized controlled trial on the efficacy of the WSTP-F.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 41
• Est. completion date: April 2008
• Est. primary completion date: April 2008
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• eighteen (18) or older;

• use a manual wheelchair at least four (4) hours per day;

• in the rehabilitation process (including training in manual wheelchair use);

• have enough ability to develop skills included in the wheelchair skills training program;

• are willing to take part in the study;

• French-speaking individual capable of understanding enough of the English language to sign this form after carefully reading it

• competent to give informed consent or have a proxy with power of attorney;

• have the verbal endorsement of the clinical therapist (if any) to participate;

• have the permission of the attending physician or occupational therapist to participate;

• are alert and cooperative.

Exclusion Criteria:

• have an unstable medical condition (e.g. angina, seizures), as indicated by the attending physician, hospital or rehabilitation centre staff, enhanced registered nurse or self-report;

• have an emotional or psychiatric problem of a type or extent that might make participation unpleasant, as indicated by the attending physician, hospital or rehabilitation centre staff, enhanced registered nurse or self-report.

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Disabled Persons

Intervention

Procedure:
• Wheelchair skills traing program

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Canada	Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire en readaption	Montreal	Quebec

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	French version of the Wheelchair Skills Test			No