Manual Wheelchair Skills Training for Long-term-care Residents

• Sponsor: Nova Scotia Health Authority (Other)
• Overall Status: Terminated
• CT.gov ID: NCT00400452
• Collaborator: (none)
• Enrollment: 8
• Location: 1
• Duration (Months): 26
• Patients Per Site Per Month: 0.3

Study Details

Study Description

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.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Healthy; Wheelchair Users	Behavioral: wheelchair skills training	N/A

Study Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Actual Enrollment: 8 participants
• Allocation: Randomized
• Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: Double (Participant, Investigator)
• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Official Title: Manual Wheelchair Skills Training for Long-term-care Residents: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of Efficacy
• Study Start Date: May 1, 2007
• Actual Primary Completion Date: Jul 1, 2009
• Actual Study Completion Date: Jul 1, 2009

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

1. Wheelchair Skills Test []

Secondary Outcome Measures

1. demographics []

2. Mini-Mental State Examination score []

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 17 Years and Older
• Sexes Eligible for Study: All
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

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.

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	Camp Hill Veteran's Memorial Building, Capital Health	Halifax	Nova Scotia	Canada	B3H 2E1

Sponsors and Collaborators

• Nova Scotia Health Authority

Investigators

• Principal Investigator: Cher Smith, Capital Health, Department of Occupational Therapy

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Additional Information:

• Related Info

Publications

None provided.

• ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00400452
• Other Study ID Numbers: CDHA014
• First Posted: Nov 16, 2006
• Last Update Posted: Jul 6, 2011
• Last Verified: Jul 1, 2009

• Keywords provided by , ,: wheelchair; skills; long-term-care; caregivers

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Jul 6, 2011