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Falling Prevention Comprehensive Model for Older People Self-caring

NCT04313062 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 220

Last updated 2022-05-02

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Summary

Falls in elderly people are a public health problem and in Chile there's a deficit regarding prevention strategies focused on high functioning older people who live in the community. The aim of the study is to design, implement and evaluate a comprehensive model based on house calls and oriented towards falling prevention (PM ACTIVAS' model). The researchers will perform a clinical trial in a district of Santiago, Chile to evaluate this model. Our hypothesis are that people who received the educational intervention following the PM ACTIVAS' model will: fall less frequently, improve their management on falls risk factors present at home, and have a higher falls risk perception than the control group. The researchers also expect that it will be possible to establish cut off points in a valid and reliable scale to assess the presence of falls risk factors in elderly people.

Conditions

  • Accidental Fall
  • Accident at Home

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Educational Intervention

An educational intervention based on the PM ACTIVAS' model and a " Falling Prevention Kit ", both in a home visit by the trainees. Also, a telephone follow-up and a last house call 12 months after recruiting to assess the changes implemented by the person and their family, to conduct the final survey and to ask for the " Falls and Events Calendar " .

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Corporación Municipal de Renca, Chile

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • RH Atlantis Healthtech Solutions SPA

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Claudia Bustamante-Troncoso, MNSc RN · Profesor Asociado Escuela de Enfermería Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

  • Francisca Márquez-Doren, PhD MNSc RN · Profesor Asociado Escuela de Enfermería Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-01-07
Primary Completion
2022-04-11
Completion
2022-04-11

Countries

  • Chile

Study Locations

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