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Remote wheelchair skills training for Caregiver

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Research Sponsored by Lee Kirby

Eligibility Criteria Checklist

Specific guidelines that determine who can or cannot participate in a clinical trial

Must have

Be older than 18 years old

Timeline

Screening 3 weeks

Treatment Varies

Follow Up 5 weeks, 18 weeks

Awards & highlights

Study Summary

This trial will test if providing wheelchair skills training remotely to caregivers of manual wheelchair users enhances caregiver-assisted wheelchair skills ability and confidence in comparison to a control group of participants who are receiving usual care and self-study material on wheelchair skills.

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks3 visits

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~ 5 weeks, 18 weeks

Screening ~ 3 weeks

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~5 weeks, 18 weeks

This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and 5 weeks, 18 weeks for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Outcome measures can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.

Primary outcome measures

Change from baseline in Wheelchair Skills Test Questionnaire at 18 weeks

Change from baseline in Wheelchair Skills Test Questionnaire at 5 weeks

Secondary outcome measures

Change from baseline in quality of life at 18 weeks

Change from baseline in quality of life at 5 weeks

Cost-effectiveness of training

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Trial Design

2Treatment groups

Experimental Treatment

Active Control

Group I: TreatmentExperimental Treatment1 Intervention

The wheelchair user and caregiver will be trained together on wheelchair skills using remote technology (Zoom for healthcare and/or Facetime).

Group II: ControlActive Control1 Intervention

The wheelchair user and caregiver will receive the same self-study materials provided to the Treatment arm. Usual care, which may include wheelchair skills training for both wheelchair users and caregivers( but which often does not do so to an adequate extent) by wheelchair user's clinical therapist.

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Who is running the clinical trial?

Lee KirbyLead Sponsor

1 Previous Clinical Trials

50 Total Patients Enrolled

IWK Health CentreOTHER

125 Previous Clinical Trials

100,446 Total Patients Enrolled

Media Library

Remote wheelchair skills training Clinical Trial Eligibility Overview. Trial Name: NCT03856749 — N/A

Caregiver Research Study Groups: Treatment, Control

Caregiver Clinical Trial 2023: Remote wheelchair skills training Highlights & Side Effects. Trial Name: NCT03856749 — N/A

Remote wheelchair skills training 2023 Treatment Timeline for Medical Study. Trial Name: NCT03856749 — N/A

Frequently Asked Questions

These questions and answers are submitted by anonymous patients, and have not been verified by our internal team.

Are enrollments still being accepted for this research project?

"Affirmative. Clinicaltrials.gov data indicates that this medical trial is currently enrolling participants, having originally been posted on December 4th 2019 and last updated September 21st 2022. Fifty patients are required for the study to be conducted at a single site location."

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How many participants have signed up for this experiment?

"Affirmative, according to data hosted on clinicaltrials.gov this study is currently enrolling participants. It was initially posted on December 4th 2019 and has been up-to-date as of September 21st 2022. The trial aims to recruit 50 patients from a single medical centre."

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What are the main focal points of this investigation?

"The main evaluation of this trial, which will occur over the course of five weeks is assessing changes in Wheelchair Skills Test Questionnaire scores at 18 weeks. Additionally, cost-effectiveness of training as measured by Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALY) and estimated costs/quality of life are being used to generate secondary outcomes. An EQ-5D-5L self report outcome measure is also employed for determining quality of life changes from baseline at 5 and 18 week intervals; with a score ranging on a scale from 1(no problem) to 5(extreme problem)."

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Recent research and studies

clinicaltrials.govStudy

Effectiveness of Wheelchair Skills Training for Caregivers of Manual Wheelchair Users

Lee Kirby 2019. "Effectiveness of Wheelchair Skills Training for Caregivers of Manual Wheelchair Users". ClinicalTrials.gov. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03856749.