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Practicability of Gliding Aids for Medical Compression Stockings

NCT01432795 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE4 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2013-06-24

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Medical compression stockings are highly effective in the prevention, treatment, and secondary prevention of chronic venous insufficiency and of post-thrombotic syndrome. Non-adherence to the prescribed compression treatment concerns approximately 40% of patients. Elderly patients are often unable to handle stockings in order to put them on properly in the morning and to undress in the evening. Gliding aids and stocking "butlers" are two types of tools to facilitate the dressing manoeuvre with medical stockings.

The present study evaluates four different gliding aids and two different stocking "butlers" to put on three different types of compression stockings. The study is conducted with forty consenting subjects with advanced chronic venous insufficiency.

Conditions

  • Chronic Venous Insufficiency
  • Post-thrombotic Syndrome

Interventions

DEVICE

Gliding aids for medical compression stockings

Each subject tests devices: * 3 gliding aids for stockings with closed tips * 3 gliding aids for stockings with open tips * 2 stocking butlers using * 3 medical compression stockings with open tip, compression class 3 (36-46mmHg) * 3 medical compression stockings w. closed tip, compression class 3 (36-46mmHg) * 2 superimposed compression stockings class 1 (18 - 21 mmHg)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • JH Rahn Foundation, Zurich

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • University of Zurich

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jürg Hafner, Professor · Department of Dermatology, University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-11-30
Primary Completion
2011-09-30
Completion
2011-09-30

Countries

  • Switzerland

Study Locations

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