Actively Recruiting
3D Printers for Autonomy in the Care of Inpatients in Continuing and Rehabilitation Care
Led by Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Toulon La Seyne sur Mer · Updated on 2026-04-13
75
Participants Needed
2
Research Sites
78 weeks
Total Duration
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Sponsors
C
Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Toulon La Seyne sur Mer
Lead Sponsor
G
Groupement Interrégional de Recherche Clinique et d'Innovation
Collaborating Sponsor
AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
Patients hospitalized in Continuing and Rehabilitation Care Units (CRCU) are for the most part elderly people suffering from neurodegenerative diseases, requiring individual, personalized rehabilitation care. Some of these patients require ergotherapy to help them regain functional ability in everyday activities. The ergotherapist organizes therapeutic activities tailored to patients' needs, with a view to optimizing their level of autonomy. Loss of autonomy is closely linked to nutritional status, which often tends towards malnutrition in patients admitted to CRCU, with deleterious consequences for the elderly. The use of technical aids to facilitate meal-taking could be a way of alleviating undernutrition. A technical aid is defined as a material aid that enables elderly or disabled people to compensate for a limitation in activity. The investigators are interested in the use of adapted cutlery, as patients often find it difficult to eat on their own, being unable to grip their cutlery correctly. Commercially adapted cutlery exists, but it is expensive and difficult to use because it is not adapted to each patient (standard size) and is too heavy. What's more, the investigators observe that their use does not necessarily improve the patient's degree of dependence, generally measured by the Katz scale. The idea of the team of ergotherapist is to offer ergonomic cutlery handles with diameters adapted to patients' degree of prehension. They offer handles with diameters of 25 mm, 30 mm, 35 mm and 40 mm. The diameter is customized according to the hand's flexion capacity, as assessed by a joint and functional assessment. What's original about these technical aids is that they are designed from thermoformable materials with the help of a 3 Dimension printer and Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing software, in partnership with the Fablab (Fabrication laboratory) in Toulon and the Hyères media library. They have the added advantage of being lightweight and inexpensive.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
3D Printers for Autonomy in the Care of Inpatients in Continuing and Rehabilitation Care
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Patient hospitalized in a Continuing Care and Rehabilitation department
- Patient suffering from a neurodegenerative disease with Mini Mental Test score > 15
- Age 18 years or older
- Patient scoring 3 or higher on the "Eating" criterion of the Katz scale (needs at least partial assistance with meals)
You will not qualify if you...
- Patient or relatives oppose participation in the research
- Patient unable to use hands to eat (amputation, paralysis, etc.)
- Patient under court protection
- Pregnant, parturient, or breastfeeding women
- Any other reason judged by the investigator that could interfere with study evaluation
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 2 locations
1
SSR Pierre Chevalier
Hyères, Var, France, 83400
Actively Recruiting
2
Hôpital Georges Clemenceau
La Garde, Var, France, 83130
Actively Recruiting
Research Team
S
Sophie Lafond
CONTACT
How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
NONE
Allocation
NA
Model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Number of Arms
1
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