EFFECT OF ADDING WEIGHT SHIFT TRAINING TO WEIGHT REDUCTION ON RISK OF FALLING IN OBESE FEMALES

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Nutritional, Metabolic, Endocrine

• Registration Number: PACTR202012549421049
• Lead Sponsor: Hanaa Samir

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2020-12-07
• Last Update Posted: 29 May 2023

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Other
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 60

Inclusion Criteria

Females only.
-Age range from 19 to 25 years old.
-Subject with BMI starting from 30 to 34.9 kg/m2
- - Fear of falling, with a score > 23 for the 16 item Falls Efficacy Scale International questionnaire (Gusi et al., 2012).

Exclusion Criteria

-Participants engaged in sport activities.
-Pregnancy.
-Participants carrying diseases that may cause balance problems.
-Subjects with disease requiring the daily intake of psychotropic drugs or affecting the vestibular system, in order to avoid any influence on balance measures (Gusi et al., 2012).
-Subjects free of lower-extremity injury and other potential threats to balance, such as diabetes, neuropathy, stroke, and vertigo (Glave et al., 2016).
-Subjects taking medication to treat depression which contributes to falls and an associated fear of falling (Jung., 2008).

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Risk of falling

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Fear of falling;maximum voluntary isometric contraction of quadriceps muscle