Fear to Fall Reduction in Geriatric Patients Who Suffered Previous Falls
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Geriatric Disorder
- Sponsor
- University of Valencia
- Enrollment
- 52
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Fear Related Psychological Concerns (Balance)
- Last Updated
- 8 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
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
Detailed Description
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
Investigators
Celedonia Igual
Dr.
University of Valencia
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Community-dwelling older people
- •Looking for Physiotherapy attendance
- •Patients who have suffered at least one fall episode
- •Patients with fear of falling
Exclusion Criteria
- •Some cognitive affection that may affect the intervention
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Fear Related Psychological Concerns (Balance)
Time Frame: 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)
Time Frame: 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)
Time Frame: Prospective change from baseline to end of intervention (8 weeks)
Assessed in terms of the Visual Analog Scale results (0-10)
Secondary Outcomes
- 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))