6MWT With and Without Walker

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Healthy; Elderly
• Interventions: Diagnostic Test: 6 minutes walking test with walker; Diagnostic Test: 6 minutes walking test

• Registration Number: NCT03627273
• Lead Sponsor: Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc- Université Catholique de Louvain

Brief Summary

Elderly subjects repeated 6MWT with or without walker

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2014-07
• Primary Completion: 2015-07
• Study Completion: 2017-01
• Study First Submitted: 2018-07-15
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-08-09
• Study First Posted: 2018-08-13
• Status Verified: 2019-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-02-21
• Last Update Posted: 2019-02-25

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 86

Inclusion Criteria

• clinically stable
• aged over 65 years
• could walk
• did not use walker frames in routine

Exclusion Criteria

• criteria outlined in the European respiratory society/American thoracic society technical standard related to 6MWT
• impaired cognitive function

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: CROSSOVER

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
walker	6 minutes walking test with walker	'6 minutes walking test' with a walker
no walker	6 minutes walking test	'6 minutes walking test' without walker

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
six minutes walking test	six minutes	distance

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Modified Borg scale	six minutes	dyspnea
heart rate	six minutes	heart beat rate
pulsed oxygen saturation	six minutes	saturation pulsed oxygen

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc; 🇧🇪 Brussels, Belgium