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Mobility Enhancing Nursing Intervention

NCT02198599 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 140

Last updated 2014-07-24

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Summary

Objectives: This parallel RCT investigated the effect of a new nursing intervention (Mobility Enhancing Nursing Intervention - MFP) designed to improve the rehabilitation programs' outcomes and patients' quality of life.

Intervention: The IG combined standard care with the 30-day mobility-enhancing-nursing intervention (MFP). MFP placed patients on a mattress on the floor and used constant tactile-kinaesthetic stimulation in everyday tasks to increase spatial orientation, to teach patients to get up safely and to move independently.

Primary and secondary outcome measures: Outcomes were defined as functionality (Extended Barthel Index, EBI), quality of life (WHOQoL), and fall-related self-efficacy (FES-I).

Conditions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Mobility-enhancing-nursing intervention

Patients' mattresses are placed on the floor, which enables the patients to explore their environment safely without the risk of falling. Additionally, the patients' environment is arranged in accordance with a nursing assessment pertaining to the patients' impairment and abilities, their goals in terms of improved mobility, and the mobility they would require in order to live at home as independently as possible. Initially, most patients favour a specific side to get up. The goal of the intervention is to teach the patients to get up step by step and to move independently over both sides.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Swiss National Science Foundation

    collaborator OTHER

  • Zurich University of Applied Sciences

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Lorenz Imhof, Prof · Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Insitute of Nursing

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-03-31
Primary Completion
2013-04-30
Completion
2013-04-30

Countries

  • Switzerland

Study Locations

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