Investigating Visual Search Strategies and the Role of Attentional Focus During Psychomotor Gait Re-education in Older Adults at Risk of Falling: Implication for Fall Rehabilitation
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 112
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Gait stability
研究概览
简要总结
Only a few studies have adopted external focus strategy as an intervention to mitigate the negative effects of heightened conscious movement processing in older adults. The goal was to investigate whether a single-session intervention (SSI) using external focus strategy could improve gait stability and visual search behaviors during adaptive locomotion among the older population.
Participants were randomly allocated to either an external focus (EXT) or a control group (CON). All participants performed an obstacle circumvention walking task along an 8-m walkway for five trials at pre-intervention (T0), post-intervention (T1), and retention (T2). The training phase included 20 walking trials. EXT focused on digits displayed on monitors at their path destinations, while CON walked naturally without any manipulation.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 65 Years 至 —（Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •aged 65 or above
- •were able to walk independently indoors without walking aids
排除标准
- •a total score of less than 24 on the Chinese version of the Mini-Mental State Examination
- •a static visual acuity poorer than 20/40 vision
- •the presence of any untreated cerebral vascular disease, Parkinson's disease, or any other major neurological deficit
结局指标
主要结局
Gait stability
时间窗: pre-test, post-test (the same day, immediately after the single-session intervention), 1 week after post-test (retention)
Measured by a 3-D motion-capture system. Indicated by the variabilities of temporal and spatial gait parameters
Visual search behavior
时间窗: pre-test, post-test (the same day, immediately after the single-session intervention), 1 week after post-test (retention)
Measured by eye tracker. Indicated by: number of fixation (%) on ground number of fixation (%) on destination number of fixation (%) on obstacle number of fixation (%) on random areas fixation duration (%) on ground fixation duration (%) on destination fixation duration (%) on obstacle fixation duration (%) on random areas
次要结局
未报告次要终点