se of a mobile-based application for fall education in older adults
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2021/12/038791
- Lead Sponsor
- Sebestina Anita Dsouza
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Open to Recruitment
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
1. Older adults aged 60 years and above
2. English or Kannada speaking
3. Able to use internet-enabled Android smartphones (only experimental group)
4. High school education
5. Able to answer everyday questions at a normal conversation level from 5 feet distance
6. Able to read a headline and a sentence in the newspaper with their regular glasses
7. Interested to take part in a fall prevention program
Older adults with
1. Cognitive impairments (Mini-Mental Status Examination score of 24 and below)
2. High fall risk (based on World Fall guidelines (2022) this includes:
•2 or more falls in the past year
•inability to get up from the floor on falling
•injuries severe enough to consult physicians
•frailty (score of 4 or more on the Clinical Frailty Scale)
•loss of consciousness or suspected syncope
3. Self-reported severely disabling physical (medical, neurological, orthopedic) and psychiatric conditions
4. Self-reported pain that precludes them from participating in exercises and activities
5. Having health conditions for which mild-intensity exercises and activities are contraindicated.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Timed up and Go TestTimepoint: pre-test and after 3 months
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 30 second Chair Stand TestTimepoint: pre-test & after 3 months;Exercise and Fall recordTimepoint: 3 months after pre-test;Fall-related knowledge, attitudes and practicesTimepoint: pre-test, after 1 week of educational intervention and after 3 months;Falls Efficacy Scale InternationalTimepoint: pre-test and after 3 months;General Self-Efficacy scale.Timepoint: pre-test & after 3 months;Home-related Fall Risk AssessmentTimepoint: pre-test and after 3 months;Timed up & go test (Cognitive)Timepoint: pre-test & after 3 months;Timed up & Go test (Manual)Timepoint: pre-test & after 3 months