NCT03469414

Manual Wheelchair Speed, Maneuverability, and Endurance and Community Access

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 1 (actual)
• Sponsor: Allina Health System · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is a cross-section correlational study that will examine the relationships between wheelchair speed, maneuverability, and endurance with community integration. By identifying which of these has the biggest contribution to community participation, the information will be used to justify continues therapy, to alter the focus of therapy, and to justify purchase of power or power assist wheelchairs when needed. Currently, therapists make the recommendation for a power or power assist chair based on their clinical judgement and the patient's experience, but there has been limited justification from the literature for these decisions. Finally, because the CHART measure is the gold standard in rehabilitation research for community integration, but has psychometric problems, we will use this opportunity to validate a new more psychometrically solid measure, the PART-O, against the CHART.

Conditions

• Physical Disability

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Life Space Assessment Scale	This nine question survey asks participants where they have gone in the last week, frequency of those visits, and how independently they went there.
OTHER	6-Minute Push Test	The 6 Minute Push Test is a measure of endurance, and requires that the participant wheel themselves around two pylons that are located 15 meters apart for 6 minutes.
OTHER	Forward Push Test	This measure of wheelchair propulsion speed asks patients to propel themselves as fast as they can over 20 meters. This task is performed twice, and the average time is used for the score.
OTHER	Wheelchair Slalom Test	In this measure, participants propel themselves through an 18 meter slalom course at their maximum self-selected speed, wheeling around seven cones, separated by three, two, or one meter.
OTHER	Craig Handicap Assessment and Reporting Technique	A measure of social participation in individuals with SCI.
OTHER	PART-O	The PART-O is a community participation measure.
OTHER	GPS Tracking	A GPS tracker will be attached to the wheelchairs of a subset of participants for one week. The GPS location is collected every minute, and mapped to Google Maps, which would allow calculation of speed of movement.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-03-31
• Primary completion: 2021-02-01
• Completion: 2021-02-01
• First posted: 2018-03-19
• Last updated: 2021-02-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States