Stand if You Can: A Standing Intervention in Long Term Care

NCT03796039 | Completed Results

• 1 other identifier: CAT2018-15
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 97
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

It is currently unknown if reducing sitting time, an activity that is highly prevalent in frail older adults living in long term care (LTC) facilities, is associated with an improvement in physical capacity such as walking speed. Simple tasks such as walking speed is associated with important outcomes for residents in LTC such as autonomy and hospitalization. The investigators hypothesize that standing an additional 100 minutes per week for 5 months will result in a clinically meaningful improvement in walking speed (0.1m/sec) in LTC residents compared to residents receiving a sitting social activity.

Conditions

Frailty; Sedentary Behavior; Physical Disability

Keywords

Long Term Care; Physical Function

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Changes in Walking Speed

  Measured by the 10m walking speed test

  Pre and post intervention testing

Secondary Outcomes (13)

• Change in Balance

  Pre and post testing (following the 5 month intervention). Data was collected but investigators are still analyzing findings.

• Change in Leg Strength

  Pre-Post Testing (following the 5 month intervention)

• Change Lower Limb Power

  Pre-Post Testing (following the 5 month intervention)

• Change in Anxiety Symptoms

  Pre-Post Testing (following the 5 month intervention)

• Depression

  Pre-Post Testing (following the 5 month intervention)

Study Arms (2)

Standing and Social Intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants be exposed to an additional 100 minutes of standing per week. Participants will do this by standing for 20 minutes Monday through Friday.

Behavioral: Standing

Control Group

NO INTERVENTION

Control group will receive social visits, but no exposure to standing

Interventions

Standing BEHAVIORAL

Standing for an additional 100 minutes per week; 20 minutes Monday-Friday

Standing and Social Intervention

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• Resident at one of the selected LTC facilities;
• Able to provide consent or have a power of attorney agree on behalf of a resident to participate in the study;
• Able to walk for ten meters, with or without a walking aid; The main outcome is walking speed performed for a distance of 10 meters. Therefore, we want everyone who participates in the study to be able to complete the test at baseline. This way we can answer the main research question, while adhering to our sample size calculation.

You may not qualify if:

• If Identified by staff at the facility as too high risk for falling by participating in the intervention.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of New Brunswick: lead
• Horizon Health Network: collaborator
• St. Thomas University: collaborator
• Universite de Moncton: collaborator
• Canadian Frailty Network: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Pine Grove Nursing Home

Fredericton, New Brunswick, E3B 2J2, Canada

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Cooling K, Bouchard DR, Gallibois M, Hebert J, Senechal M, Jarrett P, McGibbon C, Richard E, Handrigan G. Stand if you can- A parallel, superiority cluster randomized controlled trial to improve gait speed for long term care residents. JAR Life. 2025 May 9;14:100015. doi: 10.1016/j.jarlif.2025.100015. eCollection 2025.

  PMID: 40469490 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Frailty; Sedentary Behavior

Interventions

Standing Position

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Pathologic Processes; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms; Behavior

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Posture; Musculoskeletal Physiological Phenomena; Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena

Results Point of Contact

• Title: Dr. Danielle Bouchard
• Organization: University of New Brunswick

dboucha1@unb.ca

(506) 443-3908

Publication Agreements

• PI is Sponsor Employee: No
• Restrictive Agreement: No

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: INVESTIGATOR
• Masking Details: Investigator was masked at pre-testing. It was unknown which participants would be receiving the intervention. However, due to resources this was not repeated at post testing
• Purpose: SUPPORTIVE CARE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Associate Investigator

Model Details: Long term care (LTC) facilities will be recruited, with half of the LTC facilities randomized as the intervention (n=2) and half as the control group (n=2).

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: December 20, 2018
• First Posted: January 8, 2019
• Study Start: April 1, 2019
• Primary Completion: January 23, 2020
• Study Completion: July 15, 2020
• Last Updated: June 27, 2023
• Results First Posted: July 6, 2021

Record last verified: 2023-05

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

CA (1)