The Senior Step Study: How Elderly Help Themselves Maximally Forward
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 150
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Mental wellbeing
研究概览
简要总结
The Senior Step Study investigates whether feedback given by a mobility feedback device in combination with an instruction book containing every day exercises, motivates elderly to exercise more. By exercising more participants take charge of their own mobility and fall risk. Senior Step Study studies whether this 'exercising more' positively affects their mobility, fall risk, mental wellbeing, self-management, and quality of life.
详细描述
Falling is an important problem among community-dwelling elderly. The number of falls and concomitant health costs will rise within an aging population. Fall related injuries and fear of falling decrease mobility and have a negative impact on social functioning, mood, wellbeing and autonomy. Research from a medical perspective has concentrated on case finding and fall prevention. Currently, insufficient possibilities are available for elderly and caregiver to asses and improve their own mobility and fall risk. The Senior Step Study aims to provide a tool for elderly to improve their self-management abilities in monitoring and improving mobility and fall risk.
The researchers expect that elderly in the intervention group will be more aware of their own mobility and fall risk, and will therefore experience more autonomy, better mental wellbeing, and better quality of life. We expect this to reflect in less demands made on healthcare by the elderly.
150 elderly living at home, in a home for the elderly, and elderly who regularly attend activities in a community home, are asked to participate in the study. During the six months of the study, subjects will receive weekly telephone calls from the computerized falls telephone. The intervention group will measure their normal gait speed measured over 4 meters, using the mobility feedback device once a week, and use the feedback given by this mobility feedback device to perform exercises from the instruction book. Activity diaries allow them to register the type and duration of the exercises.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Supportive Care
- 盲法
- Single (Investigator)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 70 Years 至 —（Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Subjects of 70 years and over
- •Subjects who experienced at least 1 fall in the previous 12 months
- •Subjects who can walk independently or with a walking aid
- •Informed consent on the basis of Dutch legislation (WMO)
- •During the study subjects cannot participate in a falls prevention course
排除标准
- •Subjects not able to speak Dutch
- •Subjects not able to understand and remember simple Dutch instructions
- •Subjects not capable of using the falls telephone, and do not have an informal caregiver who can answer the falls telephone for them
研究组 & 干预措施
Control group
No intervention besides weekly telephone calls from the computerized falls telephone system
Intervention group
Weekly use of the mobility feedback device, use of instruction book with every day exercises, use of activity diary in intervention group.
干预措施: Mobility feedback device with use of instruction book (Behavioral)
结局指标
主要结局
Mental wellbeing
时间窗: Baseline to 3 months
Medical Outcomes Study (MOS-20)
次要结局
- Number of falls(Baseline to 6 months)
- Self-management(Baseline to 3 months, baseline to 6 months)
- Physical activity(Baseline to 3 months, baseline to 6 months)
- Fear of falling(Baseline to 3 months, baseline to 6 months)
- Balance and mobility(Baseline to 3 months, baseline to 6 months)
- Mental Wellbeing(Baseline to 6 months)
研究者
Marcel Olde Rikkert
Prof dr
Radboud University Medical Center