Sock study stumbles: only one patient enrolled
NCT ID NCT04882696
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tested whether wearing non-slip socks helps older hospital patients walk better. The researchers planned to include people aged 75 and older who needed physical therapy and had poor footwear. However, only one person joined the study, so it was stopped early. No clear conclusions can be drawn.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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1 person
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Mar 2022
- Finished
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Mar 2022
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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75 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Patient in Geriatric acute care or Post-Emergency Medicine, * Patient 75 years and older, * Patient requiring physiotherapy, * Patient with a minimum of 7 days of physical therapy * Patient arrived with unsuitable footwear (assessment at the discretion of the clinician: no back support, unsuitable size, etc.) or without footwear, * Patient able to walk at least 10 m with or without technical assistance, * Patient who has given oral consent * Patient with social security coverage. Exclusion Criteria: * Inability to understand or perform study-specific clinical tests * Known cognitive impairment, disease or condition that compromises comprehension of information or informed consent by the patient * Blind patient * Patient under guardianship or curatorship * Patient participating in an interventional clinical research protocol that may alter the assessments of this protocol. * Patient previously included in the Charm study * Patient with an identified risk of being unable to wear socks or to walk barefoot within the next 7 days (need for compression stockings or socks, wound, excessive edema, orthostatic hypotension, other)
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Centre Hospitalier Departemental Vende
La Roche-sur-Yon, 85000, France
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