NCT01943201

Low Friction Bed Sheet

Does a Low Friction Bed Sheet Optimize the Skin, Resistance and Physiology and Reduce the Risk for Pressure Ulcer?

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (actual)
• Sponsor: Swiss Paraplegic Research, Nottwil · Network
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Introduction: It is known that people with spinal cord injury (SCI) bear a considerably increased risk of developing pressure ulcer, whereby frictional forces and shear forces are recognized as risk factors. It was the aim of the study to examine the effects of a specially developed low-friction hospital bed sheet on skin physiology as well as it's acceptance by patients with SCI. Method: Prospective, randomised crossover study. Patients with a subacute spinal cord injury will be recruited. Each patient spends five consecutive nights on the new, respectively, conventional bed sheet. After the five nights, patients are asked to complete a linear questionnaire (VAS) concerning well-being, odour, perspiration and wrinkling. In addition, the patients are examined daily while still fasting, for skin redness, skin moisture, skin elasticity and skin blood circulation in the parasacral region.

Conditions

• Spinal Cord Injury
• Pressure Ulcer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	new bedsheet	sleeping 5 nights on the new bedsheet
DEVICE	conventional bedsheet	sleeping 5 nights on the conventional bedsheet

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-01-01
• Primary completion: 2012-12-01
• Completion: 2012-12-01
• First posted: 2013-09-16
• Last updated: 2016-11-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland