Manual Wheelchair Skills Training for Long-term-care Residents

NCT00400452 | Terminated

• 1 other identifier: CDHA014
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 8
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief 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.

Conditions

Healthy; Wheelchair Users

Keywords

wheelchair; skills; long-term-care; caregivers

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Wheelchair Skills Test

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• demographics

• Mini-Mental State Examination score

Interventions

wheelchair skills training BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 17 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• 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.

You may not qualify if:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Nova Scotia Health Authority: lead

Study Sites (1)

Camp Hill Veteran's Memorial Building, Capital Health

Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 2E1, Canada

Location

Related 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.

  PMID: 21367398 RESULT

Related Links

• Related Info

Study Officials

• Cher Smith

  Capital Health, Department of Occupational Therapy

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: DOUBLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT, INVESTIGATOR
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: November 15, 2006
• First Posted: November 16, 2006
• Study Start: May 1, 2007
• Primary Completion: July 1, 2009
• Study Completion: July 1, 2009
• Last Updated: July 6, 2011

Record last verified: 2009-07

Locations

CA (1)