NCT02972307

Caregiver-aided Powered Wheelchair Skills

The Extent to Which Caregivers Enhance the Wheelchair Skills of Powered Wheelchair Users: a Descriptive Cross-sectional Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 152 (actual)
• Sponsor: Nova Scotia Health Authority · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

There has been only minimal research on wheelchair skills by the caregivers of manual or powered wheelchair. There are no published data on the extent to which caregivers can enhance the mobility of powered wheelchair users. The primary objective of this study is to test the hypothesis that caregivers enhance the wheelchair skills capacity, confidence and performance of the powered wheelchair users to whom they provide assistance. Our secondary objective is to add to the literature on the measurement properties of the wheelchair skills test (questionnaire and capability version) for powered wheelchair users and their caregivers.

Conditions

• Caregivers

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	wheelchair skills	the extent to which caregivers enhance the wheelchair skills of powered wheelchair users

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-07-01
• Primary completion: 2017-02-01
• Completion: 2017-06-01
• First posted: 2016-11-23
• Last updated: 2018-01-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada