Power Mobility Training for Persons With Stroke

NCT ID: NCT00924872

Last Updated: 2012-09-03

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 27 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2009-06-30
• Study Completion Date: 2012-07-31

Brief Summary

To test the hypothesis that persons with stroke can safely and effectively learn to use power mobility devices. The primary objective of this project is to test the hypothesis that, with formal wheelchair skills training, people who have had a stroke and have been prescribed a power wheelchair will have a larger improvement in performance and safety scores on the wheelchair skills test than people who have not received wheelchair skills training.

Conditions

Stroke; Mobility

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

intervention

receive wheelchair skills training

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

wheelchair skills training

Intervention Type: OTHER

Five 30-minute training sessions, at a target frequency of 3-5 sessions per week, aimed at improving their power wheelchair skills.

control

no formalized wheelchair skills training provided

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

wheelchair skills training

Five 30-minute training sessions, at a target frequency of 3-5 sessions per week, aimed at improving their power wheelchair skills.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Other Intervention Names

WSP

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• be an inpatient at the Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre with a primary diagnosis of stroke within the previous 6 months;
• be competent to provide informed consent;
• have permission of the attending physician to participate;
• require no more than minimal assistance for verbal/non-verbal communication and auditory comprehension as evaluated by a therapist or by chart review of the baseline CIHI evaluation;27
• be able to attend during a 20-minute therapy session as evaluated by the occupational or physical therapist;
• use a manual wheelchair for at least 1 hour per day;
• be able to be safely seated in the power wheelchair that we will be using for the study;
• have no significant visual impairment (such that a subject would be unable to see barriers) as evaluated by his/her therapist based on his/her performance during functional tasks;
• Not currently be using a power wheelchair
• have no physical or mental health condition (as determined by the health-care team) that would make participation dangerous.

Exclusion Criteria

• none

• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Nova Scotia Health Authority

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Lee Kirby

Attending Staff Physician, Department of Medicine

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Lee Kirby, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Capital Distric Health Authority, Dalhousie University

Locations

Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Countries

Canada

Related Links

http://www.wheelchairskillsprogram.ca/

information about wheelchair skills program: training and testing

Other Identifiers

CDHA-RS-2008-45

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id