SAFE-LiFE to Prevent Falls Among Older Fallers
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 40
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Times Up and Go Test
研究概览
简要总结
Purpose: To test the effect of LIVE-LiFE, a home-based, tailored fall prevention program for older adults with a high risk for falling.
Study Type: Single-blind, two group randomized pilot trial. Randomization is 2:1 (27 intervention, 13 control). Participants have a chance of being in the LIVE-LiFE group or the control group.
Safe-LiFE Group: Individually tailored intervention at the participant's home spaced across 12 weeks including:
- Home safety assessment and risk reduction strategies; incorporating strength and balance training into daily habits vision screening and referral; and education about fear of falling and falls
- Home repairs, modifications, and low cost assistive devices to address unsafe home environments increasing fall risk
- Medication review and feedback concerning medications with increased fall risk
Control Group:
• An individualized fall risk assessment provided to participant and their primary care provider
Sample: 40 community-dwelling older adults in Baltimore City or County
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 (Investigator)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 70 Years 至 —（Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Adults ≥ 70 or older
- •Self-report of 2 or more falls in the past 12 months OR 1 fall causing injury in the past 12 months
排除标准
- •Moderate-severe memory problems
- •No conversational English
- •Not able to stand
- •Resident in a nursing home or assisted living facility
- •Hospitalized > 3 times in the last year
- •Terminally ill (<1 year expected survival)
- •Receiving active cancer treatment
结局指标
主要结局
Times Up and Go Test
时间窗: Baseline to 16 weeks
A test used to assess the length of time it takes a person to get out of a chair, walk 10 feet, turn around and sit back down in the same chair.
次要结局
- Falls Self-Efficacy(Baseline to 16 weeks)