Multimodal, Task-Aware Movement Assessment and Control: Clinic to the Home

• Conditions: Frailty

• Registration Number: NCT04675307
• Lead Sponsor: Brigham and Women's Hospital

Brief Summary

The investigators seek to construct a novel, multimodal, distributed system that facilitates a new paradigm of home-based medical surveillance and treatment for frail older adults centered on timely diagnosis of movement system impairments and personalized intervention. Measurements from a heterogeneous set of complementary sensors will be combined with clinically-informed and data-learned dynamic models of human motion to enable real-time activity recognition (e.g., sitting, standing, walking) and movement assessments (e.g., speed, repetition, quality). As the study progresses, the system will be integrated with wearable assistive technology to provide "smart", activity-specific assistance of movement deficits or the activation of caregivers if a decline in function is detected. Finally, the investigators will test the combined assessment and intervention system in the clinic and the home, identifying challenges and solutions for the scaling up to unconstrained real-world settings.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2020-12-08
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-12-14
• Study First Posted: 2020-12-19
• Study Start: 2021-02-17
• Status Verified: 2021-03
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-03-02
• Last Update Posted: 2021-03-04
• Primary Completion: 2023-12-01
• Study Completion: 2023-12-02

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 50

Inclusion Criteria

• Age >= 18 years
• Capacity to consent
• Community dwelling
• Ability to follow 3-step commands
• Lives within 15 miles of Boston

Exclusion Criteria

• Undomiciled
• Active substance use disorder
• Active psychosis
• Domestic violence or neglect
• Inability to communicate with investigators
• Other comorbidities that prevent full participation in the research

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Video and inertial motion unit capture	1 recording episode, approximately 3 hours	Successfully capture video and inertial motion unit capture of subjects as they perform various movement assessments.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Brigham and Women's Hospital; 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States