NCT03952858

Telerehabilitation in Geriatric Patients at Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark

Withdrawn NA Last updated 5 May 2020

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Telerehabilitation Group in Frail Elderly Syndrome. Withdrawn.

Timeline

1 March 2018

Primary endpoint
1 October 2019

1 October 2019

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	University of Aarhus
Phase	NA
Status	Withdrawn
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	single
Primary purpose	supportive care
Start date	1 March 2018
Primary completion	1 October 2019
Estimated completion	1 October 2019
Sites	2 locations across Denmark

Drugs / interventions tested

• Telerehabilitation Group

Conditions studied

• Frail Elderly Syndrome — all drugs for Frail Elderly Syndrome →

Sponsor

University of Aarhus

Who can join

65 and older, any sex, with Frail Elderly Syndrome. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Background Older patients admitted to an Emergency Department (ED) are dependent on assistive devices and almost 16 % have no gait function. It seems appropriate to identify patients who need physical exercises immediately after discharge to avoid further functional decline. New IT technologies make it possible to both supervise the exercises and communicate with the patients via video conferencing equipment. Until now no studies have examined if the Otago Exercise Program (OEP) supervised by video conferencing may enhance motivation and maintain or improve physical functional capacity in acute elderly patients.

Hypothesis Early telerehabilitation performed in groups based on the OEP is compared with traditional exercise programs offered in the community centers in geriatric patients after hospital discharge from acute care.

The study is a randomized, controlled study conducted at Aarhus University Hospital (AUH). The population is elderly patients ≥65 years, residents in the Municipality of Aarhus and admitted acutely from there own home to the ED.

Telerehabilitation Group (TG) will start telerehabilitation first to second week after discharge. After the initial two training sessions, the patient will be included in a TG. When there is a group of two to three participants the group will stop including more members in that group in order to achieve the expected benefits of group exercising. It will be possible for physiotherapists to follow the team on the screen and to communicate with the participants. In addition, the participants may communicate with each other. The following four weeks the patients will exercise on their own in their training groups on appointed times via videoconferencing equipment.

The Control Group will receive the usual training offered by the municipality. Participants in both groups will be tested with the same instruments at baseline and after four and eight weeks and at six months.

Perspective If the presented project indicates that the older target group may benefit from telerehabilitation immediately after discharge, elderly patients may increase their Quality of Life and the municipalities may experience public savings.

Telerehabilitation may be a good alternative for patients who aren't able to receive training at the community center for physical reasons. Telerehabilitation may be one of the means to meet the challenge of the increasing proportion of elderly people in Denmark.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial.