Status:
COMPLETED
Enhanced Medical Rehabilitation for Disablement
Lead Sponsor:
Washington University School of Medicine
Conditions:
Hip Fracture
Depression
Eligibility:
All Genders
60+ years
Phase:
PHASE2
Brief Summary
This study will develop and test a new program of enhanced medical rehabilitation for elderly people who have had an acute disabling medical event and are admitted to a skilled nursing facility for po...
Detailed Description
Disabling medical events are common for elderly people, causing immobilization, requiring extensive rehabilitation, and generating fears of loss of function and need for institutionalization. Existing...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Admitted to Barnes Extended Care nursing home
- Acute disablement
- (criterion dropped) Clinically depressive symptoms, including a score of 15 or greater on the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D) and depressed mood or anhedonia present more days than not since the fracture
Exclusion
- Unable to provide informed consent due to dementia and severe persistent delirium
- Inability to cooperate with the protocol
- Cardiac or other medical instability that would preclude carrying out high intensity exercises
- Language, visual, or hearing barriers to participation
- Presence of pelvic fractures that do not involve the proximal femur
- Presence of metastatic cancer, including cancer that causes a pathological fracture
- Bilateral acute hip fractures
- Lifetime psychosis or mania
- Alcohol or substance dependence within 6 months, or current (prior to hip fracture) alcohol or substance abuse
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
August 1 2009
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
January 1 2012
Estimated Enrollment :
25 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00951691
Start Date
August 1 2009
End Date
January 1 2012
Last Update
March 19 2014
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Washington University School of Medicine
St Louis, Missouri, United States, 63110