Status:
TERMINATED
Manual Wheelchair Skills Training for Long-term-care Residents
Lead Sponsor:
Nova Scotia Health Authority
Conditions:
Healthy
Wheelchair Users
Eligibility:
All Genders
17+ years
Phase:
NA
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 w...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- 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.
Exclusion
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
May 1 2007
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
July 1 2009
Estimated Enrollment :
8 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00400452
Start Date
May 1 2007
End Date
July 1 2009
Last Update
July 6 2011
Active Locations (1)
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Camp Hill Veteran's Memorial Building, Capital Health
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3H 2E1