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CompletedNCT00924872Updated Sep 3, 2012

Power Mobility Training for Persons With Stroke

An interventional study of wheelchair skills training in Stroke and Mobility, sponsored by Nova Scotia Health Authority. Completed at 1 site in Canada. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2012-09-03.

Sponsored by Nova Scotia Health Authority · Not applicable, Interventional, and Supportive care

Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
27
Allocation
Randomized
Sex
All
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Study summary

To test the hypothesis that persons with stroke can safely and effectively learn to use power mobility devices. The primary objective of this project is to test the hypothesis that, with formal wheelchair skills training, people who have had a stroke and have been prescribed a power wheelchair will have a larger improvement in performance and safety scores on the wheelchair skills test than people who have not received wheelchair skills training.

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Conditions studied

  • Stroke
  • Mobility

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Keywords

  • stroke
  • power wheelchair skills
  • training
  • safety
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In context

Stroke

7,286 studies on the registry are indexed under Stroke; 2,007 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 27 is below the median of 50 across 5,369 interventional studies indexed under Stroke.

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Lead sponsor

Nova Scotia Health Authority is the lead sponsor of 255 studies on the registry; 76 are open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
Child (0–17), Adult (18–64), Older adult (65+)
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

  • be an inpatient at the Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre with a primary diagnosis of stroke within the previous 6 months;
  • be competent to provide informed consent;
  • have permission of the attending physician to participate;
  • require no more than minimal assistance for verbal/non-verbal communication and auditory comprehension as evaluated by a therapist or by chart review of the baseline CIHI evaluation;27
  • be able to attend during a 20-minute therapy session as evaluated by the occupational or physical therapist;
  • use a manual wheelchair for at least 1 hour per day;
  • be able to be safely seated in the power wheelchair that we will be using for the study;
  • have no significant visual impairment (such that a subject would be unable to see barriers) as evaluated by his/her therapist based on his/her performance during functional tasks;
  • Not currently be using a power wheelchair
  • have no physical or mental health condition (as determined by the health-care team) that would make participation dangerous.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • none
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Supportive care
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
27 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    intervention

    receive wheelchair skills training

    Other: wheelchair skills training

  • No intervention
    control

    no formalized wheelchair skills training provided

Interventions

  • Otherwheelchair skills training

    Five 30-minute training sessions, at a target frequency of 3-5 sessions per week, aimed at improving their power wheelchair skills.

    Also known as: WSP

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Wheelchair skills test - power mobility version

    Time frame: Pre and post intervention, 3 weeks

Secondary outcomes

  1. questionnaire

    Time frame: post intervention (3 weeks), 3 month follow-up

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Study locations

1 site
  • Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre
    Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4K4, Canada
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References and documents

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Sep 3, 2012, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT00924872
Lead sponsor
Nova Scotia Health Authority
Responsible party
Lee Kirby (Attending Staff Physician, Department of Medicine, Nova Scotia Health Authority) — Principal investigator
First posted
Jun 19, 2009
Start date
Jun 2009
Primary completion
Jul 2012
Completion
Jul 2012
Last update
Sep 3, 2012

Study contacts

Lee Kirby, MD
principal investigator · Capital Distric Health Authority, Dalhousie University

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
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