To Investigate the Effect of Early Community-care Program on Fracture Hip Patient

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Fracture
• Interventions: Procedure: community-care program

• Registration Number: NCT01537523
• Lead Sponsor: Hong Kong Healthcare Volunteer Organization

Brief Summary

The early community-care program is well-known rehabiliation for the fracture hip patient. For the discharged fracture hip patient from hospital, it is worth to investigate the effect of early mobilization program to improve their physical and psychological aspects.

Detailed Description

60 fractured hip patient will randomized allocated into intervention group and control group.

The community-care include nursing care, physiotherapy and home modification according to the condition of the patient.

The intervention will received community-care program for 12 weeks. Two sessions per week and total 24 sessions.

The control group will receive the traditional medication. The outcome measure include elderly mobility scale and happiness scale. The measurement will take at initial and completion of the program.

SPSS will be used for data analysis.

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2012-02
• Study Start: 2012-02
• Study First Submitted: 2012-02-08
• Study First Submitted QC: 2012-02-17
• Last Update Submitted: 2012-02-17
• Study First Posted: 2012-02-23
• Last Update Posted: 2012-02-23
• Primary Completion: 2013-12
• Study Completion: 2014-04

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 60

Inclusion Criteria

• fracture hip patients discharged from queen mary hospital

Exclusion Criteria

• cognitive impairment

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
community-care program	community-care program	receive intervention for 12 weeks

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Elderly Mobility Scale	1 year