Staying Active with Multimorbidity In Acute hospital (StAMInA) Trial: a randomised controlled trial investigating the feasibility of allied health assistant delivered mobility rehabilitation for patients with multimorbidity in an acute hospital setting
- Conditions
- MultimorbidityPhysical Medicine / Rehabilitation - PhysiotherapyPublic Health - Health service research
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12623000584639
- Lead Sponsor
- Peninsula Health
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Active, not recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 61
Eligible participants will be patients with multimorbidity who have been admitted to the general medical ward at the participating acute hospital site. Participants must meet the following eligibility criteria:
• Coexistence of two or more chronic conditions, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, arthritis, osteoporosis, back pain, respiratory disease (e.g. asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), arthritis, kidney disease, liver disease, cancer, obesity, and mental health conditions as recorded on the medical record.
• Walked independently prior to admission with or without the use of a walking aid
• Referred to physiotherapy; and on initial assessment physiotherapist prescribes mobility rehabilitation
• Willingness and ability, as determined by initial physiotherapy assessment, to participate in mobility rehabilitation
• Aged 18 years or older
• Able to provide written, informed consent
• Able to communicate in conversational English
Staff participants:
Staff participants for this project include any allied health assistant, physiotherapist or manager involved in the implementation of the allied health assistant model of care. They will include allied health assistant and physiotherapy staff who either i) work on the general medical ward at the acute hospital participating site or ii) have managerial oversight of physiotherapists working on the general medical ward.
Patient Participants:
Exclusion criteria are:
• Patients who were non-ambulant OR required assistance of another person to walk pre-admission
• Not referred to physiotherapy; and not prescribed mobility rehabilitation
• Patients not suitable for mobilisation or mobility rehabilitation
• Patients requiring specialist physiotherapy skills to mobilise
• Patients who have undergone major surgery and those admitted with acute stroke
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
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