NCT03796039

Stand if You Can: A Standing Intervention in Long Term Care

Stand if You Can- A Randomized Control Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 97 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of New Brunswick · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

It is currently unknown if reducing sitting time, an activity that is highly prevalent in frail older adults living in long term care (LTC) facilities, is associated with an improvement in physical capacity such as walking speed. Simple tasks such as walking speed is associated with important outcomes for residents in LTC such as autonomy and hospitalization. The investigators hypothesize that standing an additional 100 minutes per week for 5 months will result in a clinically meaningful improvement in walking speed (0.1m/sec) in LTC residents compared to residents receiving a sitting social activity.

Detailed description

LTC facilities from Moncton and Fredericton will be recruited, with half of the LTC facilities randomized as the intervention and half as the control group. The investigators are aiming to enrol half of the LTC in Fredericton and half in Moncton. A total of 88 residents (44 in the control group, 44 in the intervention group) will be enrolled in the program.

Conditions

• Frailty
• Sedentary Behavior
• Physical Disability

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Standing	Standing for an additional 100 minutes per week; 20 minutes Monday-Friday

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-04-01
• Primary completion: 2020-01-23
• Completion: 2020-07-15
• First posted: 2019-01-08
• Last updated: 2023-06-27
• Results posted: 2021-07-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada