Manual Wheelchair Skills Training for Long-term-care Residents

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

Status

Terminated

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT00400452

Enrollment

Registered

2006-11-16

Start date

2007-05-31

Completion date

2009-07-31

Last updated

2011-07-06

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Conditions

Healthy, Wheelchair Users

Keywords

wheelchair, skills, long-term-care, caregivers

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.

Interventions

BEHAVIORALwheelchair skills training

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

DOUBLE (Subject, Investigator)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

17 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Yes

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.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Wheelchair Skills Test	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
demographics	—
Mini-Mental State Examination score	—

Countries

Canada

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026