6MWT With and Without Walker

Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc- Université Catholique de Louvain

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy; Elderly

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: 6 minutes walking test with walker; Diagnostic Test: 6 minutes walking test

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03627273

6MWTrollator

Details and patient eligibility

About

Elderly subjects repeated 6MWT with or without walker

Enrollment: 86 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• clinically stable
• aged over 65 years
• could walk
• did not use walker frames in routine

Exclusion criteria

• criteria outlined in the European respiratory society/American thoracic society technical standard related to 6MWT
• impaired cognitive function

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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86 participants in 2 patient groups

walker

Experimental group

Description:

'6 minutes walking test' with a walker

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: 6 minutes walking test with walker

no walker

Active Comparator group

Description:

'6 minutes walking test' without walker

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: 6 minutes walking test