Assessing a New Tool to Assess Frailty in Frail Hospitalized Elderly
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 招募中
- 入组人数
- 120
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Total standing time
研究概览
简要总结
The major purpose of this study is to establish the use of daily step counts as inexpensive, easy to measure marker for frailty and sarcopenia in an inpatient population of older adults.
详细描述
The total time involved to complete study procedures will be between 2-3 hours at your enrollment and up to 10 minutes at your discharge. Investigators will invite participants to enrol in this study at your admission and discharge days.
Firstly, Investigators would like to collect some demographic data, including participants age and gender.
Then Investigators will ask participants to check their blood pressure and heart rate, weight, height and Body Mass Index.
Also Investigators will collect participant's medication List and Past Medical History.
Then, Investigators would like to ask participants to carry special device on their mid-thigh. It's called 'ActivPAL' and a trained research assistant will fit it on participant's dominant leg. This device has ability to detect the joint angle of participant's thigh to capture lying, sitting, standing, and stepping activities.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Cohort
- 时间视角
- Prospective
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 65 Years 至 —（Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •be 65 years of age or older
- •be admitted in ACE Unit
排除标准
- •be less than 65 years of age
- •be nonambulatory
- •be diagnosed with end-stage organ failure (end-stage COPD, renal failure requiring dialysis, end-stage heart failure)
研究组 & 干预措施
Frail hospitalized old adults
Over than 65-years of age Admitted into Acute Unit Nonambulatory
干预措施: ActivPAL3 VT (PAL Technologies Ltd). (Device)
结局指标
主要结局
Total standing time
时间窗: 2 weeks or shorter
Total upright time will show a strong association with both continuous measures of frailty (Clinical Frailty Scale) and the presence of sarcopenia, as measured by ultrasound and bioelectric impedance measures.
次要结局
- Daily step counts(2 weeks or shorter)
研究者
Kenneth Madden
Principal Investigator
University of British Columbia