A Comparison Study of the Maxi Move 5 (MM5) Device

Arjo AB21 enrolled

Overview

This trial aims to evaluate the added improvements from a caregiver and patient benefit perspective. The trial should identify the forces involved for the caregiver when manoeuvring the lift.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Healthy Volunteers

Interventions

Maxi Move 5DEVICE

4 comparative devices will be used to evaluate the MM5 device

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 85 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: For expert patient: * ≥18 years * Healthy male or female * 80-100 kg 24 healthy volunteers (caregivers) will be recruited. They will require a strong working knowledge of passive floor lifts and patient positioning with the use of loop and clip slings. Exclusion Criteria: \-

Locations (1)

School of Design and Creative Art at Loughborough University

Loughborough, United Kingdom

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

1. Time to complete each transfer will be recorded

Time to complete each activity and each task within the activity will be measured in seconds.

Time frame: up to 24 months

2. A detailed hierarchical task analysis (HTA) of each activity will be completed using the video recordings and experimenter field notes for each transfer to asses the number of correct placements for each device.

Correct placement will be visually controlled with the use of markers on the subject and the final positioning device (e.g chair, toilet or bed) for each transfer. This will be reported as distance from the ideal position.

Time frame: up to 24 months

3. Physical load for movement of the hoist throughout the activities for each device will be measured.

Force required to complete the range of patient and hoist positioning tasks, forward, backwards, rotation movement, patient positioning etc. These forces will be used with the HTA data to calculate the amount of physical force delivered by the participants with each device and each transfer. The forces used will be presented in newton.

Time frame: up to 24 months

4 Collect subjective data from the caregivers that describe, comfort, ease of use, effort and willingness to adopt in practice, etc

This will be collected by the use of questionnaires

Time frame: up to 24 months

5 Subjective responses from the expert patient being transferred will be recorded

This will be collected by the use of questionnaires

Time frame: up to 24 months

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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