Efficacy of the Stroll Safe Outdoor Fall Prevention Program
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 110
- 试验地点
- 3
- 主要终点
- Change in Outdoor Falls Questionnaire (Subscale score for strategy use)
研究概览
简要总结
This study examines the effectiveness of the Stroll Safe Outdoor Fall Prevention program, a 7-week group based educational intervention. Half of participants are assigned to the Stroll Safe program and half are assigned to a wait list control group that initially receives written information only on outdoor falls prevention.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 60 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Community-dwelling adults age 60 years or older, English speaking, cognitively competent (i.e. have a Montreal Cognitive Impairment score (MOCA) >24), and able to walk outdoors independently with or without a mobility device. In addition, they must answer "yes" to one or more of the following questions: Have you fallen outdoors and hurt yourself in the past year?, Have you fallen outdoors 2 or more times in the past year?, Are you afraid that you might fall outdoors?, Have you had 2 or more stumbles, trips, or slips outdoors in the past month?
排除标准
- •Less than 60 years of age, living in an institutional setting (e.g. nursing home), non-English speaker, Montreal Cognitive Assessment Score <24, requiring the assistance of another person to walk outdoors, non-ambulatory, an acute health condition that would interfere with participation(e.g. recent fracture, uncontrolled/poorly managed mental health condition, respiratory disease requiring supplemental oxygen), they reply "no" to all of the following questions: Have you fallen outdoors and hurt yourself in the past year?, Have you fallen outdoors 2 or more times in the past year?, Are you afraid that you might fall outdoors?, Have you had 2 or more stumbles, trips, or slips outdoors in the past month?
研究组 & 干预措施
Stroll Safe Program
干预措施: Stroll Safe outdoor fall prevention program (Behavioral)
Outdoor Fall Prevention Brochure
干预措施: Outdoor Fall prevention brochure (Behavioral)
结局指标
主要结局
Change in Outdoor Falls Questionnaire (Subscale score for strategy use)
时间窗: Baseline, following 7-week program, 2 months post program completion
Measures use of outdoor fall prevention strategies. Range 0-36 with a higher score indicating greater use of fall prevention strategies.
Change in Falls Behavioral Scale for the Older Person (24 item version)
时间窗: Baseline, following 7-week program, 2 months post program completion
Measures awareness of and practice of behaviors to protect against falling. Mean score is calculated. Range 1-4, with a higher score indicating safest behaviors.
次要结局
- Change in Falls Self-Efficacy Scale-International(Baseline, following 7-week program, 2 months post program completion)
- Change in fall diary reports(Baseline, every two weeks until 2 months post program completion)