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Effect on Falls Reduction of a Multimodal Intervention in Frail and Pre-frail Elderly Community-dwelling People

NCT02631330 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 466

Last updated 2015-12-16

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Practice guidelines in caring for the geriatric population recommend performing an annual screening of falls . However, one of the problems that interfere with fall prevention programs is the lack of importance accorded to health professionals to falls. This lack of awareness of the risks faced by the associated geriatric population falls generates reluctance to adherence to a fall prevention program . At European level there are the same gaps in knowledge about the real effectiveness and efficiency of fall prevention programs .

HYPOTHESIS: The implementation of a multicomponent fall prevention program in frail and pre-frail elderly community-dwelling people reduce the incidence of falls.

OBJECTIVES

General:

• To determine the efficacy of a comprehensive program to prevent falls in the community.

Specific:

* Knowing whether reducing the incidence of falls implies a reduction in visits to primary care, emergency department or hospital staying.
* Knowing the adhesion, through indirect measures, to the intervention program.
* Knowing the nutritional, functional, cognitive, social, anthropometric, respiratory and clinical profile, including falls, of the sample.

MATERIAL AND METHODS

Study design:

Multicenter community intervention study, longitudinal, prospective, randomized, and experimental.

Through intervention by nurses in primary care education of subjects over 70 years it is to know the effectiveness of a comprehensive program of falls prevention.

It will proceed to recruit older than or equal to 70 years subjects, who meet frailty criteria age, belonging to the areas of Madeira Island (Portugal) and La Ribera County (Valéncia, Spain) .

Conditions

  • Accidental Falls

Interventions

OTHER

Multicomponent physical activity

Balance, muscle strength and aerobic capacity will be increased in intensity according Training Intervention in a Controlled Population of Frail Elderly (EMTIFE) study NCT02331459

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hospital de la Ribera

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Francisco J Tarazona-Santabalbina, MD,PhD · Hospital Universitario de la Ribera

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
QUADRUPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-12-31
Primary Completion
2016-12-31
Completion
2017-07-31

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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