Healthy Volunteers
Conditions
Brief summary
This trial aims to evaluate the added improvements from a caregiver and patient benefit perspective. The trial should identify the forces involved for the caregiver when manoeuvring the lift.
Interventions
DEVICEMaxi Move 5
4 comparative devices will be used to evaluate the MM5 device
Sponsors
Loughborough University
Arjo AB
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 85 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
For expert patient: * ≥18 years * Healthy male or female * 80-100 kg 24 healthy volunteers (caregivers) will be recruited. They will require a strong working knowledge of passive floor lifts and patient positioning with the use of loop and clip slings.
Exclusion criteria
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Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Time to complete each transfer will be recorded | up to 24 months | Time to complete each activity and each task within the activity will be measured in seconds. |
| 2. A detailed hierarchical task analysis (HTA) of each activity will be completed using the video recordings and experimenter field notes for each transfer to asses the number of correct placements for each device. | up to 24 months | Correct placement will be visually controlled with the use of markers on the subject and the final positioning device (e.g chair, toilet or bed) for each transfer. This will be reported as distance from the ideal position. |
| 3. Physical load for movement of the hoist throughout the activities for each device will be measured. | up to 24 months | Force required to complete the range of patient and hoist positioning tasks, forward, backwards, rotation movement, patient positioning etc. These forces will be used with the HTA data to calculate the amount of physical force delivered by the participants with each device and each transfer. The forces used will be presented in newton. |
| 4 Collect subjective data from the caregivers that describe, comfort, ease of use, effort and willingness to adopt in practice, etc | up to 24 months | This will be collected by the use of questionnaires |
| 5 Subjective responses from the expert patient being transferred will be recorded | up to 24 months | This will be collected by the use of questionnaires |
Countries
United Kingdom
Outcome results
None listed