FallFitness Fallprevention Exercise Program for Community-dwelling Older Adults
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 100
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Physical function by Short Physical Performance Battery
研究概览
简要总结
The overall aim with this project is to collaborate with four organisations for retired persons located in a small region of middle Sweden. The project aims to test and evaluate a newly developed group-based fall prevention exercise program regarding the effects and experiences of both leading and participating in the intervention. The design of the study is a randomised controlled trial including a total of 100 participants (60+), 50 participants in the intervention and 50 participants in the control group.
详细描述
Research questions of interest in the project are:
- Can an eight week (eight sessions) high intensity group based fall prevention program increase strength, balance, activity level, quality of life, self-efficacy as well as reduce sedentary behavior, fear of falling and fall frequency in older adults?
- Can older adults learn fall techniques by participating in an eight-week (eight-session) high intensity group based fall prevention program?
- What experiences are there from the trained leaders and the participants in the intervention?
- How can the program be implemented in the organisations for retired persons, facilitators and barriers?
A total of at least 10 volunteers will be recruited from the organisations for retired persons and trained to be instructors of the FallFitness program. These FallFitness instructors will lead the intervention groups in the planned randomised controlled trial.
For the 50 participants randomized to the intervention group a eight program including six different central components, strength, balance, self-efficacy, motor skills, and falling technique will be introduced. Estimation of about ten participants in each group with a total of five groups are planned.
Materials needed are mainly soft judo carpets. The exercise takes place in groups and most of the exercises are done in pairs, which has been a successful concept in previously research on a similar programme, Judo4Balance.
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)
盲法说明
Study will be singled blinded (assessors)
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
- •60 years of age
- •Fluent in Swedish language in both speech and writing
排除标准
- •Physically weak, cannot sit upright without support and/or holding up the neck in a lying position and or rolls backwards
- •Coronary artery disease and unstable angina
- •Recently cataract treatment
研究组 & 干预措施
FallFitness intervention group
FallFitness 8-weeks exercise program, pre-and post assessment.
干预措施: FallFitness intervention group (Other)
Control group
No treatment, standard information about fall prevention, pre-and post assessment.
结局指标
主要结局
Physical function by Short Physical Performance Battery
时间窗: Baseline and at two months follow up
Balance, strength and walking
次要结局
- Falling techniques(Baseline and at two months follow up)
- Self-efficacy (balance confidence)(Baseline and at two months follow up)
- EuroQoL-5 Dimension Questionnaire (EQ-5D)(Baseline and at two months follow up)
- Fear of Falling(Baseline and at two months follow up)
- Fallfrequency(A total of 12 months falldiary from baseline)
- Handgrip strength(Baseline and at two months follow up)
研究者
Marina Arkkukangas
Researcher
Dalarna University