Stand if You Can- A Randomized Control Trial
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 97
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Changes in Walking Speed
研究概览
简要总结
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.
详细描述
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.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Supportive Care
- 盲法
- Single (Investigator)
盲法说明
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
入排标准
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •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.
排除标准
- •If Identified by staff at the facility as too high risk for falling by participating in the intervention.
研究组 & 干预措施
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.
干预措施: Standing (Behavioral)
Control Group
Control group will receive social visits, but no exposure to standing
结局指标
主要结局
Changes in Walking Speed
时间窗: Pre and post intervention testing
Measured by the 10m walking speed test
次要结局
- Change in Balance(Pre and post testing (following the 5 month intervention). Data was collected but investigators are still analyzing findings.)
- Change in Anxiety Symptoms(Pre-Post Testing (following the 5 month intervention))
- Metabolic Profile - Low Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol(Pre-Post intervention (before and after 5-month intervention))
- Metabolic Profile - High Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol(Pre and post testing (before and after the 5-month intervention))
- Change in Leg Strength(Pre-Post Testing (following the 5 month intervention))
- Depression(Pre-Post Testing (following the 5 month intervention))
- Loneliness(Pre-Post Testing (following the 5 month intervention))
- Social Behaviours(Pre-Post Testing (following the 5-month intervention). Data has been collected, but is still being analyzed)
- Rate of Falls(The number of falls will be collected from three timeframes: 1. Between 6 months prior to and the start of program 2. the duration of the program (5 months) 3. From the end of the program to 6 months follow up. Data is still being analyzed at this time.)
- Change Lower Limb Power(Pre-Post Testing (following the 5 month intervention))
- Fall Efficacy(Pre-Post Testing (following the 5 month intervention))
- Metabolic Profile - Triglycerides(Pre-Post Testing (before and following the 5 month intervention).)
- Metabolic Profile - Blood Glucose(Pre-Post Intervention (before and after 5-month intervention))
研究者
Danielle Bouchard
Associate Investigator
University of New Brunswick