Use of a Fabric Mattress Cover for Patient Comfort

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes

Status: Completed

Conditions: Patient Comfort

Treatments: Other: Mattress protector for days 3 and 4; Other: Mattress protector for days 1 and 2

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01545089

2011-A01595-36 (Other Identifier)

LOCAL/2011/LD-02

Details and patient eligibility

About

The main objective of this research project is to measure the impact on patient satisfaction of the use of a fabric mattress cover fabric on a bedsheet protecting a plastic mattress.

Enrollment: 174 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The patient must have given his/her informed and signed consent
• The patient must be insured or beneficiary of a health insurance plan
• The patient has a planned hospitalization > 4 days
• The patient is "movable" within 48 hours

Exclusion criteria

• The patient is participating in another study
• The patient is in an exclusion period determined by a previous study
• The patient is under judicial protection, under tutorship or curatorship
• The patient refuses to sign the consent
• It is impossible to correctly inform the patient
• The patient is pregnant
• The patient is breastfeeding

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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174 participants in 2 patient groups

Mattress protector days 1,2

Experimental group

Description:

A mattress protector is placed in the bed for the first two days and then removed for days 3 and 4.

Treatment:

Other: Mattress protector for days 1 and 2

Mattress protector days 3,4

Experimental group

Description:

A mattress protector is not placed in the bed for the first two days and then added to the bed for days 3 and 4.

Treatment:

Other: Mattress protector for days 3 and 4