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Effects of Balance Training in Older Adults With Dementia

NCT02073318 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 19

Last updated 2014-02-27

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Purpose -To investigate whether older adults with dementia who have balance and gait problems can improve their balance and gait function after an individualized 4-week tasks-oriented balance training with sensory manipulation.

Hypothesis

-There is significant difference of Timed Up and Go Test, Berg Balance Scale, walking speed, 30-s chair-stand test, Chair sit-and-reach test and Barthel Index between dementia patients who received tasks-oriented balance training and those didn't receive after 4-weeks training and one month follow-up.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Task-oriented balance training

4 weeks individualized task-oriented balance training, twice a week and 1 hour each session

OTHER

Upper extremities exercise

4 weeks upper extremities exercise in sitting position, twice a week and 1 hour each session weeks

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Taiwan University Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ming-Hsia Hu, Ph.D. · School of Physical Therapy, National Taiwan University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-12-31
Primary Completion
2011-06-30
Completion
2011-07-31

Countries

  • Taiwan

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