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Are Serious Games Promoting Mobility an Attractive Alternative to Conventional Self-training for Elderly People?

NCT02077049 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 54

Last updated 2019-02-28

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Summary

The main objective of this study is to determine whether elderly people in rehabilitation setting show higher adherence to self-training when using computer-based-learning games (i.e. the so called serious games) than when performing conventional exercises. Secondly the study explores to which extend balance and mobility performances vary according to the mode of self-training.

The primary study hypothesis is that elderly people practice longer and more frequently with serious games than with a conventional exercise booklet. The secondary hypothesis is that patients experience a significant higher improvement in their balance capacity by using serious games compared to patients performing conventional exercises.

Conditions

  • Mobility Limitations
  • Geriatric Disorder

Interventions

DEVICE

serious games

Execution of computer-based games that stimulate patient's mobility. The game is displayed on a Television (TV) screen and the patient's movements are detected by the sensors of the Kinect® camera, requiring therefore no game console. The Fit Bit®, a mobility tracker device, is attached at the patient's belt the whole day and measure all the trips performed and stairs climbed. This serious games program is instructed individually by experienced physiotherapists.

OTHER

Conventional self-training

Participants perform conventional physical exercises that train their balance capabilities. There are instructed by experienced physiotherapists and are adapted to each patient's physical abilities. Detailed handouts are distributed to each participants.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • State Secretariat for Education Research and Innovation, Switzerland

    collaborator OTHER

  • Office Ambient Assisted Living

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Klinik Valens

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Peter Oesch, PhD PT · Kliniken Valens

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-02-28
Primary Completion
2015-03-31
Completion
2015-12-31

Countries

  • Switzerland

Study Locations

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