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The Effect of Large Versus Small Clog Size on Emergency Response Time

A

Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc

Status

Completed

Conditions

Clothing
Occupational Injuries

Treatments

Other: Large clog size
Other: Small clog size

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04406220
2019-clog

Details and patient eligibility

About

In many hospitals, clogs, usually white, are provided for healthcare workers. In our hospital, health care professionals from the department of intensive care medicine may be summoned to an emergency situation on a 24/7 basis. Clogs are thought to be of importance for running. Although clogs are available in several sizes, clog size is typically left to the discretion of the individual healthcare worker. Interestingly,

The primary goal of this randomized controlled trial is to assess if wearing large size clogs as compared to small size clogs results in increased running speed.

Participants will be randomized to small versus large clog size using a using randomly permuted blocks stratified by gender. Following randomization, participants will wear the clogs of allocated size and complete a standardized running course.

The primary endpoint is the time taken to complete the course.

The enrolment of 50 subjects would provide 80% power to show a 5-second difference in the response time at an average response time of 30 seconds with a 6 second standard deviation.

The ethical committee judged the study protocol exempt from extensive review.

Enrollment

50 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Healthcare workers aged 18 years or older.

Exclusion criteria

  • Inability to run on clogs.

Trial design

Primary purpose

Health Services Research

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

50 participants in 2 patient groups

Small clog size
Active Comparator group
Treatment:
Other: Small clog size
Large clog size
Active Comparator group
Treatment:
Other: Large clog size

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