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NCT Number: NCT02696213

Systematic, Comprehensive, One-to-One Training (SCOOT) for Scooter Skills: A Feasibility Study

Systematic, Comprehensive, One-to-One Training (SCOOT) for Scooter Skills, is a novel, community-based, client-centred intervention where skills training is incorporated into social activities that users want to perform. The trainer also offers problem solving strategies to help manage environmental barriers and to promote social participation. This intervention is different from customary scooter training in that customary training is often very limited and focuses on learning discrete skills outside of the user's normal environment. The purpose of this study is to explore the feasibility of conducting a mixed-methods, rater-blinded, randomized controlled trial (RCT) for new scooter users, which will evaluate the efficacy of SCOOT. We anticipate that the feasibility outcomes will be strong enough to support the conduct of a subsequent multi-site trial with a sufficient sample size to enable us to quantify definitive outcomes such as adverse events (e.g., injuries and abandonment).

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Key information

Conditions

Mobility Scooter Skills Training

Age range

60 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

GF Strong Rehabilitation Center

Vancouver, British Columbia, V5Z 2G9, Canada

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • English Speaking
  • Aged 60 or above
  • Has acquired a scooter in the last month prior to enrollment in the study

Exclusion criteria

  • Has a cognitive impairment that will prevent the individual from providing consent and reliably completing the study questionnaires
  • Reside in a nursing home
  • Plan to move outside Vancouver within the next year

Treatment and study plan

Systematic, Comprehensive, One to One Training (SCOOT)

Other

An occupational therapist trained by the principal investigator will perform 1.5 hour SCOOT sessions with participants one to two times a week over a period of 6 weeks. SCOOT will provide instruction and practice for performing scooter skills (i.e., instruction on driving, basic and advanced scooter skills) that are embedded in self-selected activities that participants want to perform using their scooters.

Six Week Delay

Other

Participants will begin the SCOOT intervention after a six week delay.

Primary outcomes

  1. Change in scooter skills capacity

    Time frame: Change from baseline skill level at 6 weeks, 12 weeks, 6 months, and 1 year

    The WST-ScQ measures the participant's subjective scooter skills (capacity), and inquires on the frequency the skill is performed, and whether or not improvement of the skill is a personal goal.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Wheelchair Skills Test for Scooters (WST-Sc)

    Time frame: Baseline, at 6 weeks, 12 weeks, 6 months, and 1 year

    The WST-Sc consists of 29 skills that are scored by an examiner from 0 to 2, where 0 = unsafe or unable, 1 = safe with difficulty, and 2 = safe without difficulty

  2. Wheelchair Skills Test for Scooters - Questionnaire (WST-ScQ) (performance and confidence)

    Time frame: Baseline, at 6 weeks, 12 weeks, 6 months, and 1 year

    The WST-ScQ measures the participant's subjective scooter skills, and inquires on the participant's scooter skill confidence, frequency the skill is performed (performance), and whether or not improvement of the skill is a personal goal.

  3. Scooter Skills Confidence Questionnaire

    Time frame: Baseline, at 6 weeks, 12 weeks, 6 months, and 1 year

    This measure evaluates the participant's confidence in managing their social environment

  4. Wheeled Mobility Outcome Questionnaire

    Time frame: Baseline, at 6 weeks, 12 weeks, 6 months, and 1 year

    This measure evaluates indoor and outdoor participation levels associated with wheeled mobility provision by using an 11 point scale (0 = completely unsatisfied to 10 = completely satisfied).

  5. Life Space Assessment (LSA) Questionnaire

    Time frame: Baseline, at 6 weeks, 12 weeks, 6 months, and 1 year

    The LSA measures participants' frequency and independence of mobility in increasingly larger life spaces over the past month.

  6. Scooter Use and Incidents

    Time frame: Baseline, 6 weeks, 12 weeks, 6 months, and 1 Year

    Participants will be asked to keep a diary of any scooter-related adverse events, including the following: tips or falls from the scooter, injuries to self, accidental contact with others, injuries to others, and damage to property. Participants will be asked to record the number of hours per day that they use their scooters.

Other outcomes

  1. Montreal Cognitive Assessment Test

    Time frame: Baseline

    This assessment is used to detect any mild cognitive impairments

  2. Late Life Functioning and Disability measure - Computer Assisted Testing (LLFDI - CAT)

    Time frame: Baseline

    The LLFDI-CAT is a computerized program that measures the participant's physical function. Drawing from a bank of 141 items, CAT continues until a standard error of 3 is obtained for the domain score, or a maximum of ten items has been administered.

  3. Hearing Handicap Inventory for the Elderly (HHIE) Screening version

    Time frame: Baseline

    The HHIE will be used to evaluate the participants' hearing abilities.

  4. Scooter Physical Accessibility of Participant Home and Community

    Time frame: Baseline

    This measure involves 14 yes/no questions inquiring about the accessibility of the participants' physical environment in their home and community.

  5. Trail Making B Test

    Time frame: Baseline

    This task is used to measure the participants' visual attention and task switching abilities, which is related to on road driving

  6. Snellen Eye Test

    Time frame: Baseline

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of British Columbia

Other

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2016
Primary completion
2020
Study completion
2021
First posted
Mar 2, 2016
Registry last updated
Oct 11, 2021

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