Validating Wireless Gait Sensor for Elderly Fall Risk Classification

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Elderly Person
• Interventions: Device: Walking analysis sensor

• Registration Number: NCT06398431
• Lead Sponsor: Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital

Brief Summary

The walking status of elderly patients over 65 years of age in the hospital will be verified through political analysis and objective fall risk assessment through wireless inertial sensors and diagnostic machine learning models, and based on the results, As investigators, providing a foundation for the objective evaluation of the risk of falling patients by nurses in general wards in the future.

Detailed Description

Currently, in the case of general clinical wards in Korea, the evaluator who assesses the risk of falling during the patient's hospitalization changes every time, and the evaluation of fall risk differs for the same patient depending on the subjectivity of the evaluator. Hence, evaluating falls requires assessing the patient's walking based on consistent criteria. Through walking analysis with a wireless small inertial sensor, there is an expectation that the incidence of fall risk will decrease. When analyzing walking to classify fall risk groups, quantitative evaluation should be applied for stride length, gait speed, step width, cadence, and gait cycle, but currently, fall assessments taking this into account are not properly conducted. Therefore, it is necessary to prepare and apply quantitative standards for fall evaluation through walking analysis through wireless small inertial sensors and data machine learning to classify the risk of falling in elderly hospitalized patients.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2023-12-01
• Study First Submitted: 2023-12-21
• Primary Completion: 2024-01-05
• Study Completion: 2024-04-30
• Status Verified: 2024-05
• Study First Submitted QC: 2024-05-02
• Study First Posted: 2024-05-03
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-05-14
• Last Update Posted: 2024-05-16

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 51

Inclusion Criteria

1. a person over the age of 55
2. Persons who can walk independently for at least one minute
3. Those who do not take drugs that affect their ability to maintain balance
4. A person who does not have an orthopedic problem such as a fracture of the lower extremities within six months

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Exclusion Criteria

1. Those who have difficulty understanding the gait analysis program or difficulty expressing symptoms
2. A person deemed unfit for this study by a rehabilitation specialist due to other conditions
3. A person who is unable to apply this walking analysis program due to serious cardiovascular diseases

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Gait group	Walking analysis sensor	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Falls Risk Assessment Scale	Patient gait data is collected continuously throughout the study period, enabling the ongoing measurement of falls risk.	A falls risk assessment scale measured through the analysis of patients' gait using wireless inertial sensors and a diagnostic machine learning model.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Sungchul Huh, MD; 🇰🇷 Yangsan, Korea, Republic of