Enhance Wellness for Individuals With Long-Term Physical Disabilities

University of Washington

Status: Completed

Conditions: Post-polio Syndrome; Multiple Sclerosis; Muscular Dystrophy; Spinal Cord Injury

Treatments: Behavioral: Enhance Wellness

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02815878

47035

Details and patient eligibility

About

This project is an adaptation trial, testing the efficacy of an evidence-based community wellness program, Enhance Wellness (http://www.projectenhance.org/enhancewellness.aspx), in a sample of middle and older-aged adults living with multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, post-polio syndrome and muscular dystrophy.

Full description

This is a quasi-experimental project, comparing the effects of Enhance Wellness in a sample of adults aged 45 years or older and living with long-term physical disability, to two quasi-control groups: a sample of adults without long-term disability participating in Enhance Wellness, and a sample of adults with long-term disability not participating in Enhance Wellness. Outcomes are collected pre-intervention and post-intervention, approximately 6-months apart.

Enrollment: 240 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 45+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Multiple Sclerosis, Muscular Dystrophy, Post-Polio Syndrome, or Spinal Cord Injury diagnosis (Group 1 and 3)
• Living in King County, Washington (Group 1 only)
• Ability to read and understand English

Exclusion criteria

• Active suicidal ideation
• Requires the use of a mechanical ventilator to breathe or speak

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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240 participants in 3 patient groups

Group 1: Intervention with Disability

Experimental group

Description:

Participants with a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, muscular dystrophy, or post-polio syndrome aged 45 or older receive Enhance Wellness for 6 months and complete pre and post outcome assessments.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Enhance Wellness

Group 2: Intervention without Disability

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants without a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, muscular dystrophy, or post-polio syndrome aged 45 or older receive Enhance Wellness for 6 months and complete pre and post outcome assessments.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Enhance Wellness

Group 3: No intervention

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants with a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, muscular dystrophy, or post-polio syndrome aged 45 or older complete pre and post outcome assessments.