NCT05378828

Interest of Using an Electric Wheelchair Equipped With Anti-collision Sensors for Elderly People in EHPAD

Interest of Using an Electric Wheelchair Equipped With Anti-collision Sensors to Improve the Driving Confidence of Elderly People in EHPAD

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1 (actual)
• Sponsor: Pôle Saint Hélier · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The device which is the subject of this investigation is a robotic assistance module for the driving of a semi-autonomous electric wheelchair (FRE). It's intended to accessorize the FRE to improve the safety conditions during the driving of a FRE, making it possible to decrease the rate of accident in wheelchair on the one hand, increase the confidence of driving on the other hand, and facilitate the access to the FRE of people not being able to aspire to it without the use of a device of safety of this type.

Conditions

• Elderly

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Using anti-collision Sensors on electric wheelchairs	use of anti-collision sensors on the electric wheelchair during 3 weeks
OTHER	Use of an electric wheelchair without sensors	Use of an electric wheelchair without sensors for 3 weeks before using anti-collision sensors then during 3 weeks after using the anti-collision sensors.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-07-21
• Primary completion: 2022-08-26
• Completion: 2022-08-26
• First posted: 2022-05-18
• Last updated: 2023-08-30

Locations

3 sites across 1 country: France