Feasibility of a trial design to support recovery of outdoor mobility following a broken hip

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Support for older people who have broken a hip to recover enough to go outdoors; Injury, Occupational Diseases, Poisoning

• Registration Number: ISRCTN16147125
• Lead Sponsor: King's College London

Brief Summary

2024 Protocol article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39133712/ (added 14/08/2024)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2024-01-29
• Last Update Posted: 26 August 2024
• Study Completion: 2025-02-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

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

Inclusion Criteria

Participants:
1. Adults aged 60 years or more
2. Admitted to hospital from (and planned discharge to) home
3. Self-reported outdoor mobility in the three-months pre-fracture
4. Surgically treated for hip fracture
5. Able to consent and participate
Participants recruited under the above ‘inclusion criteria’ whose circumstances change (e.g., planned discharge to home but then discharged to nursing/residential care) will be withdrawn before randomisation. They will not be replaced

Professionals:
Therapists involved in the intervention arm of the feasibility trial, and managers who oversee services involved in the delivery of the intervention within the feasibility trial

Exclusion Criteria

Participants:
1. Adults aged less than 60 years
2. Admitted to hospital from (or planned discharge to) nursing/residential care
3. No self-reported outdoor mobility in the three-months pre-fracture
4. Non-surgically treated for hip fracture,
5. Who are likely to require two or more persons to support mobility on discharge
6. Who are unable to consent or participate

Professionals:
Therapists not involved in the intervention arm of the feasibility trial, and managers who do not oversee services involved in the delivery of the intervention within the feasibility trial

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Fidelity measured using:<br>1. Therapist session audio recordings at each intervention session<br>2. Intervention and usual care questionnaires completed by the physiotherapist/occupational therapist/therapy assistant after each supervised session with a participant<br>3. Semi-structured interviews/focus groups with participants, therapists, and managers of services involved in the delivery of the intervention 12 weeks post-randomisation