Overview
Diagnosis and Therapy
Status
Closed for Recruitment
Purpose of Study
The purpose of this study is to understand how an activity chair affects daily living among adults with chronic conditions resulting in pain, fatigue or low standing endurance. In particular, researchers are interested to learn participants’ experience using the activity chair in their own homes and whether the activity chair affects day-to-day engagement in activities that are meaningful to them.
Eligible participants will first be interviewed to choose an activity to do using the activity chair and a way to measure their engagement (e.g. frequency or duration), which they will track in 10 activity logs given every one to two days. For the first half of the study, participants will continue life as usual. For the second half, they will be loaned an activity chair to use. Finally, researchers will interview participants to understand their experience and impact on activity engagement.
Eligibility
You may be eligible to participate in this study if you:
- are 19 years of age or above
- live in the Lower Mainland region in British Columbia
- speak English or Mandarin
- have a disability or chronic health condition that results in one or more of the following symptoms: pain, fatigue/tiredness, reduced standing endurance
- have physical and mental capacity to give consent and use the activity
chair safely in their home environment
Disclaimer
Study Coordinators and Research Nurses cannot give medical advice over the phone. Telephone numbers and email addresses are provided for obtaining additional information on specific research studies only. If you have specific questions which require clinical expertise, please call your primary care physician.
The purpose of this study is to understand how an activity chair affects daily living among adults with chronic conditions resulting in pain, fatigue or low standing endurance. In particular, researchers are interested to learn participants’ experience using the activity chair in their own homes and whether the activity chair affects day-to-day engagement in activities that are meaningful to them.
Eligible participants will first be interviewed to choose an activity to do using the activity chair and a way to measure their engagement (e.g. frequency or duration), which they will track in 10 activity logs given every one to two days. For the first half of the study, participants will continue life as usual. For the second half, they will be loaned an activity chair to use. Finally, researchers will interview participants to understand their experience and impact on activity engagement.
You may be eligible to participate in this study if you:
- are 19 years of age or above
- live in the Lower Mainland region in British Columbia
- speak English or Mandarin
- have a disability or chronic health condition that results in one or more of the following symptoms: pain, fatigue/tiredness, reduced standing endurance
- have physical and mental capacity to give consent and use the activity
chair safely in their home environment
Study Coordinators and Research Nurses cannot give medical advice over the phone. Telephone numbers and email addresses are provided for obtaining additional information on specific research studies only. If you have specific questions which require clinical expertise, please call your primary care physician.
