Active Lifestyle All Your Life-an Intervention Programme for Preventing Fall Injuries

February 6, 2013 updated by: Karolinska Institutet

The purpose of the project is to formulate, implement and evaluate a new type of activity-orientated, evidence-based prevention programme to prevent fall injuries among elderly people. The question examined by the study is whether the intervention programme can:

  • significantly reduce accidents and incidents involving falling among the participants,
  • influence variables such as satisfaction with life, confidence in one's own ability and a feeling of involvement,
  • be shown to be cost effective in terms of the use of resources. The intervention programme - Active lifestyle all your life - is being developed in and for primary care for the cost effective prevention of fall injuries among elderly people using a method that results in continued active life. The aim is to ensure that the elderly person is able to continue living an active life with commitment and involvement, which can in itself prevent fall injuries. This presupposes a knowledge of how to avoid fall injuries and the measures and aids that are available to prevent such injuries. The programme will also provide the participants with a social community in self-supporting groups which, by their own efforts but also with social support, are able to continue some of the activities provided through primary care.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

138

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • Sweden
      • Stockholm, Sweden
        • Karolinska Institutet

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

65 years and older (Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • 65 or older
  • Fall injury in the form of radius fracture or other minor documented fall injury, or one or more fall incidents reported in the last six months (reported to a district nurse in the 75-year discussion)

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Cognitive impairments
  • Documented psychiatric problems that make participation in organized group activity impossible
  • Considerable difficulties in speaking and understanding Swedish

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: Single

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
No Intervention: Control
Active Comparator: Lifestyle counseling
Behavioral: Active Lifestyle all your Life
Intervention After the first data collection the participants are randomised in an intervention and control group. The control group receives the normal treatment that may be given after a radius fracture and may vary from one care unit to another (but there is no preventive programme within the normal activity as far as we know). In groups of 6-8 participants the intervention group starts the programme "Active lifestyle all your life" with group meetings around every other week (10-12 times) and with 2 individual meetings directed at discussing fall risks in the participant's own home environment. After a summer break, Christmas and New Year three follow-up meetings take place, one of which is an individual meeting. The intervention is then terminated, but the participants are encouraged to continue the activity themselves.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Time Frame
Accidental falls
Time Frame: Two Years (2010-2012)
Two Years (2010-2012)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Time Frame
Participation Self-Rated health Self efficacy
Time Frame: Two Years (2010-2012)
Two Years (2010-2012)

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Karolinska Institutet

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start

March 1, 2011

Primary Completion (Actual)

November 1, 2012

Study Completion (Actual)

November 1, 2012

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

July 11, 2011

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

July 11, 2011

First Posted (Estimate)

July 12, 2011

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimate)

February 7, 2013

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

February 6, 2013

Last Verified

June 1, 2011

More Information

Terms related to this study

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 20102011

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