A multi-centre randomised controlled trial of a peer-volunteer led active ageing programme to prevent decline in physical function in older people at risk of mobility disability: the ACE (Active, Connected, Engaged) study

niversity of Birmingham0 个研究点目标入组 515 人开始时间: 2021年9月30日最近更新: 2023年12月12日

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2023 Protocol article in https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-023-07758-3 (added 01/12/2023)

•1. Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB) score between 4 and 9 inclusive. This is based on definitions of physical frailty from the European Medicines Agency for identifying people with (or at risk of) physical frailty in clinical trials. This guidance defines pre-frailty as an SPPB score of 8-9 and frailty as an SPPB score of 7 or less
•2. Planning to reside in the target area for intervention delivery for at least 18 months

•1. Self-reported inability to walk across a room without help (use of a stick for support is acceptable)
•2. Being too physically active (defined by four verbal screening questions (How would you find walking across a room? How easy would you find getting out of a low chair? How easy would you find walking up a flight of stairs with no handrail or wall to lean on? How easy do you find walking on uneven pavement without losing your balance? Responses easy/a little difficult/very difficult)
•3. Having an existing major mobility limitation (SPPB of 3 or less)
•4. Living in residential or nursing care; e) Having any serious medical conditions that would preclude participation

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