Seamless Follow up and Support System for Frail Elderly Living at Home (FRAGIL-IT)

November 6, 2020 updated by: University Hospital, Toulouse

FRAGIL-IT, Seamless Follow up and Support System for Frail Elderly Living at Home

The object of the present project is to promote the prevention of disability by providing 1) a feedback and motivational coaching to the user, 2) relevant clinical parameters to the healthcare professionals in order to support the patient's follow-up, and 3) supporting the detection of preliminary signs of functional loss. The technical solution will contain wearable (e.g. smart insole) and ambient unobtrusive devices (e.g. weigh scale including balance analysis), and analysis and diagnosis assistance software. The devices transmit wirelessly the collected data to a remote server through a tablet. Data will then be available remotely for consultations by users (i.e. patients or physicians). The clinical evaluation will be a multi-phased design with a first living lab evaluation followed by a real life home trial to finalize the evaluation. Comprehensive assessments will be conducted to highlight the feasibility and acceptability.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

Functional decline challenges the sustainability of healthcare systems. There are difficulties in implementing effective interventions to prevent disability, to promote adherence to lifestyle recommendations and to perform seamless follow-up at home. A technological solution addressing this challenge and improving individual participation would be welcome. Our aim is to evaluate an instrument for supporting physical activity and monitoring multiple parameters of frailty (a pre-disability condition) in frail elderly persons. The investigator and collaborator are therefore developing a solution to monitor key parameters of frailty during subject daily life and to promote walking. This tools are :

  1. connected soles to evaluate different parameters of the volunteer walking
  2. connected weighing machine to evaluate the volunteer weight and equilibrate
  3. machine to measure gripping force because gripping force is correlated to physical condition.

The primary aim is to assess the acceptability of the solution for the follow up and the motivational coaching of frail patients at home. Results from this study will also be used to elaborate the design of a further larger national multicenter randomized control trial assessing the efficiency of the solution to prevent disability.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

40

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • France
    • Midi-Pyrenes
      • Toulouse, Midi-Pyrenes, France, 31059
        • University Hospital, Toulouse

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

65 years and older (Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • patient living at home;
  • pre-frail or frail volunteers;
  • Informed and written consent by the patient or the legal representative or the reliable person when appropriate.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • patient's life expectancy less than 12 months; patient presenting disability with an Activity of Daily Living score < 4/6 ant/or a Mini - Mental State <20/30, not walking or walking with a technical support;
  • Non agreement of study participation of patients or legal representative or the reliable person when appropriate.

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Prevention
  • Allocation: N/A
  • Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: FRAGIL-IT testing group
FRAGIL-IT tools : connected soles, connected weighting machine and measure of gripping force
Other: soles
Volunteer must walk this this connected seamless to measure different walking parameters
Other Names:
  • connected soles
Other: weighting machine
This weighting machine measure weight evolution and equilibrate of volunteers
Other Names:
  • connected weighting machine
Other: gripping force
this machine measure the gripping force of volunteer
Other Names:
  • gripping force machine

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
acceptability of FRAGIL-IT tools
Time Frame: 3 months
primary outcome is based on the acceptability of the FRAGIL-IT tools for the end-user : connected soles, connected weighting machine and measure of gripping force to control autonomy loss. The acceptability of this tools will be evaluate by questionnaire as The Short Form (36) Health Survey (SF36) questionnaire
3 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
evaluation of life quality with SF36 questionnaire
Time Frame: 3 months
the life quality will be assess with SF36 questionnaire
3 months
functional status measure by ADL
Time Frame: 3 months
functional status will be assess with Activity of Daily Living (ADL) score. The scale of ADL is between 0 to 6. 0 is worse than 6.
3 months
functional status measure by iADL
Time Frame: 3 months
functional status will be assess with instrumental Activity of Daily Living (iADL) score. The scale of IADL is between 0 to 8. 0 is worse than 8.
3 months
cognitive status
Time Frame: 3 months
cognitive status will be assess with Mini Mental State (MMS)
3 months

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

University Hospital, Toulouse

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Antoine PIAU, MD, University Hospital, Toulouse

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

October 16, 2017

Primary Completion (Actual)

December 31, 2018

Study Completion (Actual)

December 31, 2019

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

October 13, 2017

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

March 15, 2018

First Posted (Actual)

March 16, 2018

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

November 9, 2020

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

November 6, 2020

Last Verified

November 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Other Study ID Numbers

  • RC31/15/0603

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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