The aim of the study is to examine suitability of data and processed reports acquired from the Smart Hallway system for clinical settings in terms of user acceptability and accuracy for use in clinical practice.
The goal of the study is to use off-the-shelves markerless and contactless technologies and automatically digitise the person's movements as they walk through an institutional hallway. Multi-camera-based technologies can merge 2D-video into 3D-information. With an appropriate software, one can acquire data, perform the kinematic calculations and generate a report, all with minimal or no human intervention. The specific research question are whether pathological gait or walking disorders of the patients can be identified and classified based on the system's output, whether signs of depression can be classified from the the system's output, and whether the results of the 6-minute walk test can be predicted from the the system's output.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
100
The patients will receive standard rehabilitation that comprises assessment performed by a multidisciplinary team (physical-and-rehabilitation-medicine specialist physician, physiotherapist, occupational therapist, psychologist, social worker, prosthetics-and-orthotics engineer).
The patients from the LLL group will be fitted with an appropriate lower-limb prosthesis.
The patients from the LLO group will be fitted with an appropriate lower-limb orthosis.
University Rehabilitation Institute, Republic of Slovenia
Ljubljana, Slovenia
RECRUITINGSmart Hallway
As part of the regular clinical examination, the patients walk straight through a 7m long walkway, turn, and come back while data is collected with the Smart Hallway system. They start walking one meter outside the capture volume. The procedure is repeated five times to provide a sufficient number of walking cycles. Three-dimensional temporospatial gait features (position, joint angles, velocities, accelerations) are extracted from the acquired data.
Time frame: Upon admission to rehabilitation
Falls during rehabilitation
Data on falls during rehabilitation is routinely collected and entered in the hospital information system (HIS). It will be transferred from the HIS to the study database upon the patient's discharge.
Time frame: Upon discharge from rehabilitation
World Health Organisation Disability Assessment Schedule
The World Health Organisation Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS II) is a generic patient-reported outcome measure of disability that has been translated into Slovenian. It covers six life domains. The scores range from 0 to 100; higher score indicates more disability (i.e., worse outcome).
Time frame: Upon admission to rehabilitation
Activity Specific Balance Confidence Scale
The Activity Specific Balance Confidence Scale (ABC) is a pathology-specific patient-reported outcome measure of balance that has been translated and validated in Slovenian. The scores range from 0 to 100; higher score indicates more confidence (i.e., better outcome).
Time frame: Upon admission to rehabilitation
Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale
The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) is a patient-reported outcome measure that is used for assessing depression, which has been translated and validated in Slovenian. The scales comprises 14 items, 7 for anxiety and 7 for depression, all scored from 0 to 3, so the score range is from 0 to 21 for either anxiety or depression. Higher score means more pronounced anxiety and depression (i.e., worse outcome).
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Time frame: Upon admission to rehabilitation
Six-minute walk test
The Six-minute Walk Test (6MWT) is a standard test for assessing walking speed over a long distance with good and well-known metric characteristics. Longer walked distance means higher walking speed (i.e., better outcome).
Time frame: Upon admission to rehabilitation