Fall prevention through education and coaching (PROTECT): a stepped wedge type I hybrid trial of effectiveness and implementation

Sydney Local Health District0 sites5,808 target enrollmentJuly 22, 2024

Overview

No summary available.

Registry

who.int

Start Date

July 22, 2024

End Date

TBD

Last Updated

last year

Study Type

Interventional

Sex

All

Sponsor

•Trial participants: Inpatient hospital wards at 4 hospital sites across one local health district. Eligible wards will be acute or subacute, medical or surgical wards.
•Staff survey and interview participants: Staff employed by the participating hospital working in nursing, allied health, medical, administrative, or environmental services teams on a ward enrolled to participate in the intervention.
•Patient and family member/carer survey and interview participants: Admitted inpatient or family member/carer of admitted inpatient on participating ward, deemed cognitively and medically well enough to participate in a survey or interview as per Nurse Unit Manager of the ward’s clinical judgment.

•Trial participants: Emergency Departments, Intensive Care Units, Paediatric and neonatal wards, Wards currently participating in another research trial with patient falls as a listed outcome, Outpatient settings.
•Staff survey and interview participants: Has worked on the participating ward for less than one week.
•Patient and family member/carer survey and interview participants: Inpatient who has not spent any time on ward not participating in intervention; deemed not cognitively and/or medically well enough to participate in a survey as per the Nurse Unit Manager of the ward’s clinical judgment.