Fear to Fall Reduction in Geriatric Patients Who Suffered Previous Falls
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 入组人数
- 52
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Fear Related Psychological Concerns (Balance)
研究概览
简要总结
Fear to fall has been proven to be a risk factor affecting those geriatric patients who have previously suffered a fall. In this work it is assessed the effectiveness of a physiotherapy and psychological combined intervention, aimed at reducing the fear to fall in the aforementioned patients
详细描述
One of the main consequences of falling is the fear to fall again. This involves changes in the elderly behaviour which leads to a reduction of the physical activity, higher need of cares, reduction of the quality of life and risk of social isolation. In this framework, this works is aimed at performing a treatment to reduce the fear to fall in those geriatrics patients with previous falls, based on the combination of physical activity, health education and cognitive-behavioural psychological treatment targeted to this effect. The reason is that literature points at combined treatment use to present higher effectiveness
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
- Double (Participant, Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 60 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Community-dwelling older people
- •Looking for Physiotherapy attendance
- •Patients who have suffered at least one fall episode
- •Patients with fear of falling
排除标准
- •Some cognitive affection that may affect the intervention
结局指标
主要结局
Fear Related Psychological Concerns (Balance)
时间窗: Prospective change from baseline to end of intervention (8 weeks)
Assessed in terms of the Activities-Specific Balance Confidence (ABC) scale results
Fear Related Psychological Concerns (Falls)
时间窗: Prospective change from baseline to end of intervention (8 weeks)
Assessed in terms of the Falls Efficacy Scale International (FES-I) results
Fear Related Psychological Concerns (Fear)
时间窗: Prospective change from baseline to end of intervention (8 weeks)
Assessed in terms of the Visual Analog Scale results (0-10)
次要结局
- Center Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale(Prospective change from baseline to end of intervention (8 weeks))
- Ryff Scale(Prospective change from baseline to end of intervention (8 weeks))
- Risk of Falling(Prospective change from baseline to end of intervention (8 weeks))
研究者
Celedonia Igual
Dr.
University of Valencia