Unité de recherche clinique, CHD-Vendée, La Roche Sur Yon, France.
Service de rééducation, CHD-Vendée, La Roche Sur Yon, France.
PLoS One. 2023 May 1;18(5):e0283226. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0283226. eCollection 2023.
Older patients often arrive in acute care wards with inappropriate footwear. Hospitals may provide non-slip socks to improve the patients' safety. However, few studies have been conducted on the benefits of non-slip socks. A recent literature review found only two randomized controlled studies that evaluated non-slip socks, but the socks were not the primary focus of the studies. The aim of this study is therefore to specifically evaluate the benefits of non-slip socks on gait in hospitalized older people.
This open, randomized, controlled trial will include patients aged 75 years and over, hospitalized in an acute medical unit. Patients will be randomized to either remain barefoot or wear non-slip socks throughout their stay. The primary outcome is gait speed, assessed on Day 1 and Day 8.
This randomized controlled trial should provide clinicians with a scientific rational for the recommendation, or not, of the use of non-slip socks for older patients in acute care hospitals.
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ on May 12, 2021 under the reference: NCT04882696 https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04882696.
老年患者在入住急性护理病房时常穿着不合适的鞋子。医院可能会提供防滑袜以提高患者的安全性。然而，关于防滑袜的益处，研究甚少。最近的文献综述仅发现了两项评估防滑袜的随机对照研究，但这些研究并非主要关注防滑袜。因此，本研究旨在专门评估防滑袜对住院老年患者步态的影响。
本开放性、随机、对照试验将纳入 75 岁及以上、入住急性内科病房的患者。患者将被随机分配继续赤脚或在整个住院期间穿防滑袜。主要结局是第 1 天和第 8 天的步态速度。
本随机对照试验应能为临床医生推荐或不推荐在急性护理医院使用防滑袜为老年患者提供科学依据。
2021 年 5 月 12 日在 临床试验.gov 上注册，参考号为 NCT04882696。https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04882696。
