Measurement of Compliance in Clubfoot Bracing Via a Novel Pressure Sensor
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 67
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Wear Rate Percentage (Number of Hours Per Day Brace Was Worn Out of the Recommended 24 Hours)
研究概览
简要总结
It has been shown that compliance with brace wear can significantly improve the treatment outcome of idiopathic clubfoot deformities. Noncompliance rates have been estimated to be around 30-41% with initial orthosis wear after successful treatment with serial castings. These studies have depended on family logs and not objective data. With the development of a monitoring device, this study hopes to examine: (1) actual patient compliance, (2) comparisons of actual wear time and assumed wear time and (3) the relationship of patient wear with clinical outcomes.
Hypothesis:
Actual patient compliance in foot abduction orthoses (FAO) wear is less than self-reported compliance and noncompliance is correlated to future surgeries.
详细描述
It is necessary that treatment teams avoid making any assumptions about patient compliance. This study will objectively measure brace wear-rate in patients with clubfoot that have already been prescribed a foot ankle orthosis. The use of a monitoring device will be able to give objective data on actual patient compliance with brace wear. It is hypothesized that objective compliance data will allow physicians to better assess the patient's therapy progress and outcome, troubleshoot problems or issues associated with barriers to brace wear, and better educate families confronted with having a child with clubfoot. Long term goals will then attempt to determine whether certain brace designs can increase wear time thus decreasing the rate of clubfoot recurrence.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Case Only
- 时间视角
- Prospective
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- — 至 3 Years（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Unilateral or bilateral clubfoot
- •Birth to 3 years of age
- •Has been successfully treated with Ponseti casting protocol
排除标准
- •Any other prior treatment for clubfoot
- •Other existing diagnoses or conditions
结局指标
主要结局
Wear Rate Percentage (Number of Hours Per Day Brace Was Worn Out of the Recommended 24 Hours)
时间窗: 3 months
Number of hours per day in brace will be measured by pressure sensor at the end of month 1, month 2 and month 3. Parent report of brace wear will also be documented at each of these timepoints. Wear rate percentage will be calculated by dividing the number of hours of brace wear (either actual as measured by the sensor or reported by parent diary) by the recommended 24 hours.
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Todd Milbrandt
Principal Investigator
Shriners Hospitals for Children