The Effects of a Home-based Occupational Therapy Tele-rehabilitation for Outpatients After Hip Fracture Surgery

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Telerehabilitation

Treatments

Behavioral: Caspar Telerehabilitation

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04259294

HongKongPOLYU

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators will investigate the effects of a home-based occupational therapy telerehabilitation (TR) via smartphones in enhancing functional and motor performances, and fall efficacy, for outpatients receiving day hospital rehabilitation after hip fracture surgery.

This is a feasibility randomized controlled trial with two groups - experimental and comparison groups, involving older adults after hip fracture surgery within 12 weeks attending the Geriatric Day Hospital. Patients will be assessed at baseline, immediately post 3-weeks intervention, and follow-up after 3-weeks for motor performances, daily activities functioning and fall efficacy. The experimental group will receive home program using the use of Caspar Health e-system and a mobile app in smartphones, while the comparison group will receive paper-and-pencil instructions for the home program on weekly basis, for 3 weeks.

Enrollment

31 patients

Sex

All

Ages

60+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Primary diagnosis of hip fracture
Post-hip surgery within 12 weeks
Aged 60 years old or above
Medically stable
With Abbreviated Mental Test scored 6 or above
Having at least one functional limitation in the basic activities of daily living assessments

Exclusion criteria

The hip fracture is the result of malignancy
There is risk of falls due to postural hypotension
Either patients or caregiver do not understand Cantonese, English or Mandarin instructions
They do not use a smartphone
They are unable to read the instructions on the screen of the smartphone because of visual difficulty