Manual Wheelchair Skills Training for Long-term-care Residents

Healthy Clinical Trial

Official title:

Manual Wheelchair Skills Training for Long-term-care Residents: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of Efficacy

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Terminated

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00400452
• Other study ID #: CDHA014
• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• First received: November 15, 2006
• Last updated: July 4, 2011
• Start date: May 2007
• Est. completion date: July 2009

Study information

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

Clinical Trial Summary

It is hypothesized that, compared to a control group, manual wheelchair users and their caregivers in the long-term-care setting who receive the wheelchair skills training program will improve their wheelchair skills to a statistically significant extent and will retain these improvements for at least one month.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Terminated
• Enrollment: 8
• Est. completion date: July 2009
• Est. primary completion date: July 2009
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 17 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria (wheelchair user):

• be seventeen (17) or older

• be a manual wheelchair user, living in a long-term-care facility;

• be expected to require the long-term use of a wheelchair (at least four [4] hours/week for at least eight [8] weeks), as reported by a clinical therapist;

• be competent to give informed consent (as indicated by a Mini Mental State Examination score of 20 or higher) or have a proxy with power of attorney willing to provide consent,

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

• have the written permission of the attending physician to participate;

• be willing to take part in the study, including signing the consent after carefully reading it.

Exclusion Criteria (wheelchair user):

• have an unstable medical condition (e.g. angina, seizures), as determined by the attending physician, house staff or ERN;

• have an emotional or psychiatric problem of a type or extent that might make participation unpleasant, as determined by the attending physician, house staff or ERN.

Inclusion Criteria (caregiver):

• be seventeen (17) or older;

• provide at least part-time [at least one (1) hour/week] wheelchair-handling care for a wheelchair user in a long-term-care facility;

• be willing to take part in the study, including signing the consent form after carefully reading it.

Exclusion Criteria (caregiver):

• have an unstable medical condition (e.g. angina, seizures), as indicated by self-report;

• have an emotional or psychiatric problem of a type or extent that might make participation unpleasant, as indicated by self-report.

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Investigator), Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Healthy
• Wheelchair Users

Intervention

Behavioral:
• wheelchair skills training

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Canada	Camp Hill Veteran's Memorial Building, Capital Health	Halifax	Nova Scotia

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Nova Scotia Health Authority

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Canada, 

References & Publications (1)

Smith C, Kirby RL. Manual wheelchair skills capacity and safety of residents of a long-term-care facility. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2011 Apr;92(4):663-9. doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2010.11.024. Epub 2011 Mar 2. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Wheelchair Skills Test			No
Secondary	demographics			No
Secondary	Mini-Mental State Examination score			No

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