To Investigate the Effect of Early Community-care Program on Fracture Hip Patient

Hong Kong Healthcare Volunteer Organization

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Fracture

Treatments: Procedure: community-care program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01537523

RCT-001

Details and patient eligibility

About

The early community-care program is well-known rehabiliation for the fracture hip patient. For the discharged fracture hip patient from hospital, it is worth to investigate the effect of early mobilization program to improve their physical and psychological aspects.

Full description

60 fractured hip patient will randomized allocated into intervention group and control group.

The community-care include nursing care, physiotherapy and home modification according to the condition of the patient.

The intervention will received community-care program for 12 weeks. Two sessions per week and total 24 sessions.

The control group will receive the traditional medication. The outcome measure include elderly mobility scale and happiness scale. The measurement will take at initial and completion of the program.

SPSS will be used for data analysis.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• fracture hip patients discharged from queen mary hospital

Exclusion criteria

• cognitive impairment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

community-care program

Experimental group

Description:

receive intervention for 12 weeks

Treatment:

Procedure: community-care program

control

No Intervention group