Manual Wheelchair Speed, Maneuverability, and Endurance and Community Access

Terminated

• Conditions: Physical Disability

• Registration Number: NCT03469414
• Lead Sponsor: Allina Health System

Brief Summary

This is a cross-section correlational study that will examine the relationships between wheelchair speed, maneuverability, and endurance with community integration. By identifying which of these has the biggest contribution to community participation, the information will be used to justify continues therapy, to alter the focus of therapy, and to justify purchase of power or power assist wheelchairs when needed. Currently, therapists make the recommendation for a power or power assist chair based on their clinical judgement and the patient's experience, but there has been limited justification from the literature for these decisions. Finally, because the CHART measure is the gold standard in rehabilitation research for community integration, but has psychometric problems, we will use this opportunity to validate a new more psychometrically solid measure, the PART-O, against the CHART.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2018-03-12
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-03-15
• Study First Posted: 2018-03-19
• Study Start: 2018-03-31
• Status Verified: 2021-02
• Primary Completion: 2021-02-01
• Study Completion: 2021-02-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-02-11
• Last Update Posted: 2021-02-15

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: TERMINATED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 1

Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Life Space Assessment Scale Score	Day 0	This nine question survey asks participants where they have gone in the last week, frequency of those visits, and how independently they went there. The locations vary from spaces within their home, immediately around their home, or outside of their neighborhood, city, county, state or nation. Their independent movement patterns will be classified as within the home, limited community mobility and full community mobility.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Distance (meters) covered in six-minute push test	Day 0	This is a measure of endurance, and requires that the participant wheel themselves around two pylons that are located 15 meters apart for 6 minutes
Average time to complete forward push test	Day 0	This measure of wheelchair propulsion speed asks patients to propel themselves as fast as they can over 20 meters. This task is performed twice, and the average time is used for the score
Time to complete Manual Wheelchair slalom Test	Day 0	In this measure, participants propel themselves through an 18 meter slalom course at their maximum self-selected speed, wheeling around seven cones, separated by three, two, or one meter

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute; 🇺🇸 Golden Valley, Minnesota, United States