To Investigate the Effect of Early Community-care Program on Fracture Hip Patient

Fracture Clinical Trial

Official title:

To Investigate the Effect of Early Community-care Program on Physical and Depressive Aspects for Discharged Hospital Patient Suffered From Hip Fracture.

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01537523
• Other study ID #: RCT-001
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: February 8, 2012
• Last updated: February 17, 2012
• Start date: February 2012
• Est. completion date: April 2014

Study information

• Verified date: February 2012
• Source: Hong Kong Healthcare Volunteer Organization
• Contact: Man PM Fung, FHKCP
• Phone: 852-24435671
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Hong Kong: Ethics Committee
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The early community-care program is well-known rehabiliation for the fracture hip patient. For the discharged fracture hip patient from hospital, it is worth to investigate the effect of early mobilization program to improve their physical and psychological aspects.

Description:

60 fractured hip patient will randomized allocated into intervention group and control group.

The community-care include nursing care, physiotherapy and home modification according to the condition of the patient.

The intervention will received community-care program for 12 weeks. Two sessions per week and total 24 sessions.

The control group will receive the traditional medication. The outcome measure include elderly mobility scale and happiness scale. The measurement will take at initial and completion of the program.

SPSS will be used for data analysis.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 60
• Est. completion date: April 2014
• Est. primary completion date: December 2013
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• fracture hip patients discharged from queen mary hospital

Exclusion Criteria:

• cognitive impairment

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Investigator), Primary Purpose: Health Services Research

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Fracture
• Fractures, Bone

Intervention

Procedure:
• community-care program
community nurse care, physiotherapy

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Hong Kong Healthcare Volunteer Organization

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Elderly Mobility Scale		1 year	No