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Assessment and Referral Versus Exercise in Primary Prevention of Falls: PA Healthy Steps Program

NCT01552551 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 189

Last updated 2015-12-30

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Summary

Older adults at high risk of falls will complete the PA Healthy Steps program. This program will be implemented by research staff who will follow the training manual and implement the program as it was designed to assess the effectiveness of the program. Participants will then be randomly assigned to three arms: (i) Follow-up only; (ii) Falls case management, in which adherence to physician and home safety assessments will be facilitated; and (iii) Healthy Steps in Motion, a 4-week group exercise program designed to complement Healthy Steps. All participants will be followed monthly for 6 months through personal and automated telephone interview protocols to ascertain falls and injuries.

Conditions

  • Lower Extremity Weakness Distal
  • Distorted; Balance

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Assessment and education

PA Healthy Steps program

BEHAVIORAL

Healthy Steps with Falls Case Management

Counseling to ensure that participants receive a physician assessment and home safety check

BEHAVIORAL

Healthy Steps in Motion

Group exercise program

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Steven M Albert, PhD · University of Pittsburgh

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
50 Years
Max Age
100 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-05-31
Primary Completion
2013-01-31
Completion
2013-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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