A feasibility study of protective socks against usual care to reduce skin tears in high risk people

Not Applicable

Completed

Conditions: Topic: Primary Care Research Network for England, Generic Health Relevance and Cross Cutting Themes
Subtopic: Not Assigned, Generic Health Relevance (all Subtopics)
Disease: All Diseases, Age and ageing
Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases

Registration Number: ISRCTN96565376

Lead Sponsor: Royal Devon and Exeter Foundation Trust (UK)

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Completed

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 90

Inclusion Criteria

Current inclusion criteria as of 17/06/2014:
1. Resident in a care home or living in the community and taking steroids for at least a month
2. Aged 65 years or older
3. Ambulatory and/or wheelchair user able to take part in normal day-to-day activities

Previous inclusion criteria:
1. Resident in a care home
2. Male and female aged 18 years or older, upper age limit 100 years
3. Ambulatory and/or wheelchair user able to take part in daily activities within the care home
4. Having a past medical history of skin tear injuries to legs defined as any reported skin tear injury, regardless of severity, which has occurred within 12 months prior to recruitment

Exclusion Criteria

Current exclusion criteria as of 17/06/2014:
1. Not competent to give informed consent or complete study questionnaires
2. Bedbound
3. Undergoing current treatment for lacerations or ulcers on legs
4. Use of graduated compression stockings/bandaging
5. Scheduled to be admitted to hospital for elective surgery during the study period
6. A participant in other concurrent interventional research which may over-burden the participant or confound data collection

Previous exclusion criteria:
1. Not competent to give informed consent in the opinion of the recruiting nurse
2. Life expectancy less than 6 months
3. Resident is bedbound
4. Resident is being treated for current lacerations or ulcers on their legs
5. Resident is likely to use graduated compression stockings or similar during the intervention period
6. Resident is scheduled to be admitted to hospital for elective surgery during the 16-week trial period
7. Resident is a participant in other concurrent interventional research which may over-burden the resident or confound data collection