Home Telerehabilitation for Deconditioned Older Adults
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00386256 |
Recruitment Status
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Completed
First Posted
: October 11, 2006
Results First Posted
: August 15, 2014
Last Update Posted
: August 15, 2014
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Osteoarthritis | Device: Health Buddy, Home telehealth technology Other: Telephone counseling | Not Applicable |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 38 participants |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Official Title: | Home Based Telerehabilitation for Deconditioned Older Adults |
Study Start Date : | October 2006 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | May 2008 |
Actual Study Completion Date : | June 2008 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: Health Buddy outpatient
Received home telehealth monitoring by Health Buddy
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Device: Health Buddy, Home telehealth technology
Exercise questions, educational messages, and clinical reminders have been programmed into the home telehealth technology and are administered daily via the Health Buddy(R) to evaluate the program's feasibility based on adherence rates, program completion rates, and safety.
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Experimental: Telephone outpatient | Other: Telephone counseling |
Experimental: health buddy inpatient |
Device: Health Buddy, Home telehealth technology
Exercise questions, educational messages, and clinical reminders have been programmed into the home telehealth technology and are administered daily via the Health Buddy(R) to evaluate the program's feasibility based on adherence rates, program completion rates, and safety.
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Experimental: telephone inpatient | Other: Telephone counseling |
- Exercise Adherence [ Time Frame: at monthly intervals, for 3-months ]An 11-week exercise adherence rate was calculated by dividing the total number of days that the participant reported exercising by 77 days and multiplying by 100. This first calculation estimated the exercise adherence rate for the full intervention period regardless of participant dropout. Eleven weeks rather than 12 weeks was used in the denominator because subjects received their HB units some time during the first week of study enrollment and may have missed some days during this first week.
- HB/Phone Adherence [ Time Frame: Monthly over 3 months ]An 11-week text messaging or phone adherence rate was calculated by dividing the number of response days via the HB or phone divided by 77 days and multiplied by 100. This first calculation estimated the text messaging or phone adherence rate for the full intervention period regardless of participant dropout. Eleven weeks rather than 12 weeks was used in the denominator because subjects received their HB units some time during the first week of study enrollment and may have missed some days during this first week.

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 60 Years and older (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- acute decline in functional status while hospitalized as reported by the patient
- physically inactive outpatients (exercise less than 30 min/day, 3 d/wk)
- ability to hear and communicate via telephone
- ability to read a video or text monitor
- ability to manually operate the technology
- have a working telephone and power source
- willingness to use the TEL-REHAB technology
Exclusion Criteria:
- does not speak English
- poor cognition as determined by the Mini-Cog
- non-ambulatory
- had a stroke, myocardial infarction, hip fracture, or total hip or knee replacement within the prior 6 months

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00386256
United States, California | |
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, West LA | |
West Los Angeles, California, United States, 90073 |
Principal Investigator: | Nancy D. Harada, PhD MPA | VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, West LA |
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Responsible Party: | VA Office of Research and Development |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00386256 History of Changes |
Obsolete Identifiers: | NCT00929149 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
E4204-R |
First Posted: | October 11, 2006 Key Record Dates |
Results First Posted: | August 15, 2014 |
Last Update Posted: | August 15, 2014 |
Last Verified: | August 2014 |
Keywords provided by VA Office of Research and Development:
telehealth telerehabilitation deconditioning exercise |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Osteoarthritis Arthritis Joint Diseases Musculoskeletal Diseases Rheumatic Diseases |