Interest of Using an Electric Wheelchair Equipped With Anti-collision Sensors for Elderly People in EHPAD (SWADAPT4)

Pôle Saint Hélier

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Elderly

Treatments: Other: Use of an electric wheelchair without sensors; Device: Using anti-collision Sensors on electric wheelchairs

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05378828

2021-A03138-33

Details and patient eligibility

About

The device which is the subject of this investigation is a robotic assistance module for the driving of a semi-autonomous electric wheelchair (FRE). It's intended to accessorize the FRE to improve the safety conditions during the driving of a FRE, making it possible to decrease the rate of accident in wheelchair on the one hand, increase the confidence of driving on the other hand, and facilitate the access to the FRE of people not being able to aspire to it without the use of a device of safety of this type.

Enrollment: 1 patient

Sex: All

Ages: 60+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Over 60 years of age,
• Resident in an institution for the elderly or nursing home,
• with a electric wheelchair but expressing driving difficulties
• Having freely consented to participate in the study,
• In the case of a guardianship, the legal representative having read the information document intended for the legal guardian of an adult under legal protection (under guardianship) and having given his or her free and informed consent for the person for whom he or she is responsible to participate in the study (in agreement with the patient).

Exclusion criteria

• Impaired comprehension preventing the protocol from being carried out,
• Person in an emergency situation unable to give prior consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1 participants in 1 patient group

Use of an electric wheelchair with or without sensors

Other group

Description:

During 3 weeks, the electric weehlchair will not have sensors, then sensors will be put on the wheelchair for the next 3 weeks then removed for 3 other weeks.

Treatment:

Device: Using anti-collision Sensors on electric wheelchairs

Other: Use of an electric wheelchair without sensors