Clinical trial NCT00400452: Manual Wheelchair Skills Training for Long-term-care Residents
Official title: Manual Wheelchair Skills Training for Long-term-care Residents: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of Efficacy
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: TERMINATED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Healthy
Wheelchair Users
Keywords: wheelchair
skills
long-term-care
caregivers
Lead sponsor: Nova Scotia Health Authority
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2006-11-16
Enrollment: 8
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 17
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

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.


Eligibility criteria: 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.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Wheelchair Skills Test
Secondary outcomes:
measure: demographics
measure: Mini-Mental State Examination score
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Halifax
country: Canada
facility: Camp Hill Veteran's Memorial Building, Capital Health
state: Nova Scotia
Study officials:
affiliation: Capital Health, Department of Occupational Therapy
name: Cher Smith
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: 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.