Effect of Early Prosthetic Fitting in Patients With Below Knee Amputation

October 7, 2024 updated by: Muhammad Naveed Babur, Superior University
A randomized control trial of 50 patients to identify the effect of early prosthetic fitting and physical rehabilitation. Previous studies show a significant impact of early induction of prosthetic rehabilitation of amputation.

Study Overview

Status

Active, not recruiting

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

Delayed rehabilitation may cause severe physical complications like joint contracture, muscle strength loss. Along with physical complications delayed in rehabilitation may also significantly affect psychological, economical and quality of daily life. Pakistan is a low income under developed country and major cause of amputation in here is traumatic amputation, that will effect mostly the younger age people. After missing a precious body part if the amputee comes along with such kind of physical and Psychological complications, his/her whole daily life will be effected. There is a keen need of implementation of global rules for physical rehabilitation of amputees and disables including the duration of induction of prosthetic as well as overall physical rehabilitation after surgical and traumatic removal of limbs.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

50

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

  • Pakistan
    • Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
      • Dera Ismāīl Khān, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
        • Mobility Rehab care, Islamabad Medical Center, Near DHQ D.I.Khan

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

  • Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Male and female below-knee amputees due to trauma and diabetes

Exclusion Criteria:

  • patients with comorbidities
  • old user of prosthesis

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: Supportive Care
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Early Rehab Group
Diagnostic test: Early Rehab
The first group of 25 Patients was fitted with Prosthesis with in 6months of duration after amputation.
Active Comparator: Delayed Rehab Group
Combination product: Delayed Rehab
The 2nd group of 25 patients that was fitted with Prosthesis after the time period of 6months after amputation. No physical rehab was done during this time period including physiotherapy and prosthetic treatment. Main aim was to check the significant impact of delayed rehabilitation.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
World Health Organization Quality of life (WHO QOL)
Time Frame: 12 Months
questionnaire was used to measure the impact in both groups for quality of life. The WHOQOL is a quality-of-life assessment developed by the WHOQOL Group with fifteen international field centres, simultaneously, in an attempt to develop a quality of life assessment that would be applicable cross-culturally. The patient's physical, psychological, social, and environmental state of health are assessed separately in WHO_QOL known as 4 domains of questionaire. 0 points represent the worst possible state of health, while 100 points represent the best possible state of health with regard to the respective domain.
12 Months

Collaborators and Investigators

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

Sponsor

Superior University

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

November 1, 2023

Primary Completion (Actual)

May 1, 2024

Study Completion (Estimated)

December 31, 2024

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

October 6, 2024

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

October 7, 2024

First Posted (Actual)

October 8, 2024

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

October 8, 2024

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

October 7, 2024

Last Verified

October 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • MSRSW/Batch-Fall22/742

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

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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