Increasing the Winter Community Participation of Older Adult Wheelchair Users

NCT ID: NCT02622828

Last Updated: 2019-10-04

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: TERMINATED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 4 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2015-12-01
• Study Completion Date: 2017-09-15

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to examine whether intervention strategies targeted at the level of the environment (e.g. improving access to community based leisure groups, transportation) can successfully promote the community participation experiences of community-dwelling older adult Manitobans who use wheelchairs in the winter.

Detailed Description

There is strong evidence to support that community-dwelling older adults who are able to maintain their involvement in social, recreational, spiritual and physical activities experience positive effects on their health and quality of life. While winter creates challenges to community participation for many Manitobans, these difficulties are magnified for older adults and particularly for older adults who use wheelchairs. The aim of this study is to explore ways to improve or maintain community participation of community-dwelling older adults who use wheelchairs in the winter. Using a single-subject design, five older adult Manitobans who are wheelchair users will each select three community-based participation goals to work on throughout the winter months. Each older adult participant will work with an occupational therapist to receive individually-focused interventions aimed at increasing his or her community participation. The investigators will use a client-centered outcome measure designed to detect changes in performance and satisfaction in the goals that the individual has self-identified as being important to him or her, yet difficult to perform. The findings of this study will help determine the feasibility of conducting a larger scale study that would include a greater number of older adult Manitobans. Older adult wheelchair users in Manitoba bear a disproportionate burden in the winter when aging, mobility limitations, and weather coincide to create conditions that make community participation exceedingly difficult. It is important to the health and well-being of older adult Manitobans to find effective ways to promote community engagement throughout the winter months.

Conditions

Frail Elderly

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: OTHER
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Behavioural

Participant-identified community based activity

Group Type: OTHER

Participant-identified community based activity

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM) is a client-centered outcome measure designed to detect changes in performance and satisfaction in occupations that the individual has self-identified as being important and difficult to perform. The COPM will be used to set self-identified, community-based activities as treatment goals.

Interventions

Participant-identified community based activity

The Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM) is a client-centered outcome measure designed to detect changes in performance and satisfaction in occupations that the individual has self-identified as being important and difficult to perform. The COPM will be used to set self-identified, community-based activities as treatment goals.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Age 70 or older, user of a manual or power wheelchair or scooter for outdoor mobility
• Self-identifies a reduction in community participation throughout the winter months
• Community-dwelling
• Lives within the perimeter of Winnipeg.

Exclusion Criteria

• Geriatric Depression Scale-SF score of 6 or more
• Montreal Cognitive Assessment score of 25 or less

• Minimum Eligible Age: 70 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University of Manitoba

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Jacquie Ripat, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Manitoba

Locations

University of Manitoba

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Countries

Canada

Provided Documents

Document Type: Study Protocol and Statistical Analysis Plan

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Other Identifiers

H2015:132

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id