iStoppFalls ? information and communication technologies (ICT) based system to predict and prevent falls

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Injury, Occupational Diseases, Poisoning; Falls and fall risk

• Registration Number: ISRCTN15932647
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of Siegen (Germany)

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2014-02-10
• Last Update Posted: 17 October 2016

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 100

Inclusion Criteria

1. Men and women, aged 65+ years
2. Participants must be able to understand, read and speak German or Spanish, respectively
3. Not cognitively impaired
4. Are able to walk without walking aid
5. Television with HDMI
6. Internet access at home

Exclusion Criteria

1. Acute coronary heart disease
2. Pulmonary embolism =6 months
3. Acute infections
4. Severe visual impairment
5. Psychiatric disorders
6. Untreated hypertension
7. Uncontrolled hypertension
8. Myocarditis
9. Bypass surgery =6 months
10. Participants with active implants (e.g., implantable defibrillators and pacemakers)
11. Severe neurological disorders: M. Parkinson, dementia, multiple sclerosis
12. Drug or alcohol dependence
13. Large abdominal aortic aneurysm
14. Uncontrolled metabolic diseases
15. Stroke
16. Acute cancer
17. Unstable cardiac disease
18. Arrhythmia
19. Chronic heart failure
20. Pulmonary embolism
21. Pneumonia
22. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
23. Insufficient visual acuity
24. Insufficient visual aid
25. Colour blindness
26. Insufficient auditory acuity
27. Insufficient auditory aid
28. Valvular defect
29. Severe motor impairment
30. Anaemia
31. Renal insufficiency
32. Intermittent claudication
33. Osteoporosis
34. Inoperable enlarging aortic aneurysm
35. Malignant ventricular arrhythmia related to exertion
36. Severe aortic stenosis
37. End stage congestive heart failure
38. Other rapidly terminal illness
39. Severe behavioural agitation in response to exercise
40. Unstable angina
41. Uncontrolled cardiac failure
42. Severe aortic stenosis
43. Uncontrolled hypertension or grade 3 (severe) hypertension (e.g., blood pressure 180 mmHg [systolic] or 110 mmHg [diastolic])
44. Symptomatic hypotension <90/60 mmHg
45. Acute infection or fever, or feeling unwell (including, but not limited to, acute myocarditis or pericarditis)
46. Resting tachycardia or arrhythmias
47. Diabetes with poor blood glucose control (e.g., blood glucose level <6 mmol/L or >15 mmol/

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified