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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Video-based Apps in Healthcare

NCT07434570 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 15

Last updated 2026-02-25

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Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to understand the effectiveness of a novel video-feedback based mobile application that teaches walking aid skills to current or anticipated walking aid users. The main questions it aims to answer are:

1. Does this app improve balance confidence in walking aid users, as compared to a sham app?
2. Does this app improve clinically relevant outcomes in walking aid users, as compared to a sham app?

Researchers will compare balance confidence and clinical outcomes to a control group undergoing the same protocol but using an identical app that teaches teaching general health skills instead. The intervention group will be learning the skills of fitting and walking with their gait aid while the control group will be learning the skills of deep breathing to reduce stress and turning in bed safely.

Participants will take part in 3 data collection sessions. The first two, that will be about 4-6 days apart, are identical. During these two data sessions, the participants will begin by completing a pre-app survey, then completing 2 app modules, and finish by completing a post-app survey. About 26-30 days after the second study visit, participants will be asked to complete a survey.

Conditions

  • Mobility Impairments
  • Walking Aid Users

Interventions

DEVICE

Walking Aid Skills App

Participants will use a video feedback-based app to learn how to correctly fit and walk with their usual gait aid.

DEVICE

Attentional Control

Participants will use an attentional control app (same interface as the interventional app) to learn how to breathe deeply to reduce stress and how to turn in bed safely from back-to-side.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Calgary

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Years
Max Age
99 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-12-12
Primary Completion
2025-07-29
Completion
2025-07-29

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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