Stand if You Can: A Standing Intervention in Long Term Care

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

97 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2019-04-01

Study Completion Date

2020-07-15

Brief Summary

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It is currently unknown if reducing sitting time, an activity that is highly prevalent in frail older adults living in long term care (LTC) facilities, is associated with an improvement in physical capacity such as walking speed. Simple tasks such as walking speed is associated with important outcomes for residents in LTC such as autonomy and hospitalization. The investigators hypothesize that standing an additional 100 minutes per week for 5 months will result in a clinically meaningful improvement in walking speed (0.1m/sec) in LTC residents compared to residents receiving a sitting social activity.

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Detailed Description

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LTC facilities from Moncton and Fredericton will be recruited, with half of the LTC facilities randomized as the intervention and half as the control group. The investigators are aiming to enrol half of the LTC in Fredericton and half in Moncton. A total of 88 residents (44 in the control group, 44 in the intervention group) will be enrolled in the program.

Conditions

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Frailty Sedentary Behavior Physical Disability

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Long term care (LTC) facilities will be recruited, with half of the LTC facilities randomized as the intervention (n=2) and half as the control group (n=2).

Primary Study Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Investigators

Investigator was masked at pre-testing. It was unknown which participants would be receiving the intervention. However, due to resources this was not repeated at post testing

Study Groups

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Standing and Social Intervention

Participants be exposed to an additional 100 minutes of standing per week. Participants will do this by standing for 20 minutes Monday through Friday.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Standing

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Standing for an additional 100 minutes per week; 20 minutes Monday-Friday

Control Group

Control group will receive social visits, but no exposure to standing

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Standing

Standing for an additional 100 minutes per week; 20 minutes Monday-Friday

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Resident at one of the selected LTC facilities;
* Able to provide consent or have a power of attorney agree on behalf of a resident to participate in the study;
* Able to walk for ten meters, with or without a walking aid; The main outcome is walking speed performed for a distance of 10 meters. Therefore, we want everyone who participates in the study to be able to complete the test at baseline. This way we can answer the main research question, while adhering to our sample size calculation.