Manual Wheelchair Skills Training for Long-term-care Residents

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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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.

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

Conditions
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Healthy, Wheelchair Users

Intervention / Treatment
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* Behavioral: wheelchair skills training


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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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.

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 17 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Treatment
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Double


Arms and Interventions

| Intervention/Treatment |
| --- |
|Behavioral: wheelchair skills training|nan|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Wheelchair Skills Test |  |  | 

Secondary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| demographics |  |  | 
| Mini-Mental State Examination score |  |  | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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wheelchair, skills, long-term-care, caregivers