Enhanced Medical Rehabilitation for Disablement

Completed · Phase 2

Conditions studied: Hip Fracture, Depression

In brief

This study will develop and test a new program of enhanced medical rehabilitation for elderly people who have had an acute disabling medical event and are admitted to a skilled nursing facility for post-acute rehabilitation.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00951691

Run by

Washington University School of Medicine

People needed

25

Starts

2009-08-01

Expected to finish

2012-01-01

Last updated by the study team

2014-03-19

Who can join

Age: 60 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Admitted to Barnes Extended Care nursing home
• Acute disablement
• (criterion dropped) Clinically depressive symptoms, including a score of 15 or greater on the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D) and depressed mood or anhedonia present more days than not since the fracture

You may not qualify if…

• Unable to provide informed consent due to dementia and severe persistent delirium
• Inability to cooperate with the protocol
• Cardiac or other medical instability that would preclude carrying out high intensity exercises
• Language, visual, or hearing barriers to participation
• Presence of pelvic fractures that do not involve the proximal femur
• Presence of metastatic cancer, including cancer that causes a pathological fracture
• Bilateral acute hip fractures
• Lifetime psychosis or mania
• Alcohol or substance dependence within 6 months, or current (prior to hip fracture) alcohol or substance abuse

Where it is running

• Washington University School of Medicine — St Louis, Missouri, United States

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