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- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT04277000
Determinants of the Fall Risk Profile and Quality of Life of Older Subjects Visting Climatic Health Resorts
Assessment of the Fall Risk Profile and Quality of Life of Subjects Aged 65 or Older Visiting the French Balaruc-les-bains Climatic Health Resort
The main objective of the study conducted in subjects aged 65 or older visiting the French Balaruc-les-bains climatic health resort was to :
- Determine factors that distinguish fallers from not fallers
- Determine factors that may predict falls and injurious falls, 3 and 6 months after the stay in the resort
- Determine the effects of the 3-week stay in the health resort on quality of life, fear of falling, fatigue, and physical activity
Study Overview
Detailed Description
In all subjects aged 65 or older visiting consecutively the resort over a 5-month period, a questionnaire was administered in order to record:
- The number of falls and injurious falls in the previous 12 months. Injurious falls are falls complicated by serious or moderate injuries. Falls with serious injuries were those that caused fractures, head injuries requiring admission to hospital, joint dislocations, sprains accompanied by reduced physical function, other non-specified serious joint injuries, and lacerations requiring sutures. Falls with moderate injuries were those that resulted in bruising, sprains, cuts, abrasions, or reduction in physical function for at least three days or in medical help
- Physical activity over the last 7 days, using the International Physical Activity Questionnaires (IPAQ)
- Fear of falling, using a visual analogue scale (VAS) (0 to 10).
- The feeling of fatigue over the previous month, using a visual analogue scale (0 to 10) A questionnaire was administered to record quality of life (EQ-5D-3L), at baseline and 7 days after the end of the stay A questionnaire snt by mail was filled in by subjects 3 and 6 months after the stay in the resort in order to record falls and injurious falls, fatigue, fear of falling, and physical activity (using the above questionnaires).
Physical measurements were performed at the entrance of the health resort :
- Body height and body weight to the nearest 0.5 cm and 0.1 kg to calculate the body mass index (kg.m-2)
- The Timed Up and Go test and the time to walk 4 meters at usual pace (Lusardi-2017)
- The 5 repeated chair stand test
- The maximum grip strength: using a Camry Electronic Hand Dynamometer
- The one-leg stand test (lowest value on the right and the left leg), and stand tests feet together, in semi-tandem, and tandem position
- The score of the Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB) was calculated based on results of the 4-meter gait speed, and the 5-chair stand and balance tests
- The Fried's frailty phenotype score was calculated, based on - the weight loss in prior year (body weight at baseline ˗ the self-assessed body weight 12 months before inclusion) (1 point if ≥ 10 lbs lost unintentionally); - muscle strength (1 point if the maximum grip strength was low based on the dynamometer manual); - self-reported fatigue (1 point if Visual Analog Fatigue Scale ≥ 5 in men and ≥ 4 in women), - walking speed (1 point if 4-m walking speed at comfortable pace was in the lowest quintile of values of subjects with the same gender) (≤ 0.71 m.s-1 in women and ≤ 0.76 m.s-1 in men), - physical activities in the previous week (1 point if in the lowest quintile of values of IPAQ of subjects with the same gender) (≤ 2076 MET (Metabolic Equivalent Task) in women and ≤ 2320 MET in men). A total score of ≥ 3 points was indicative of frailty, 1 or 2 points of prefrail phenotype and a score of 0 is indicative of robustness
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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Montpellier, France, 34295
- UHMontpellier
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Sampling Method
Study Population
Description
Inclusion criteria:
- Patients aged 65 years or older visiting the Balaruc-les-bains resort for venous or rheumatologic complaints over the 5-month recruitment period
- Subjects able to comply with all trial procedures
- Subjects covered by public health insurance
- Signed informed
Exclusion criteria:
- Patients with severe physical or neuropsychiatric impairment making impossible the physical measurements at baseline or the reply to the questionnaires at baseline and during the 7 days-, 3 month-, and 6-month follow-up after the stay in the health resort.
Subject unable to read or/and write
- Subject who are in a dependency or employment with the sponsor or the investigator
- Participation in another clinical trial within the last 4 weeks before the screening date
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Number of new falls over the folly-up period
Time Frame: 1 year
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A fall is defined as an "unexpected event in which the participant comes to rest on the ground, floor, or other lower level" (J Am Geriatr Soc 2011;59:148-57)
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1 year
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Number of injurious falls over the folly-up period
Time Frame: at 7 days, 3, and 6 months after the stay in the resort
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Number of injurious falls over the folly-up period (El Khoury F, 2015)
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at 7 days, 3, and 6 months after the stay in the resort
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Fear of falling using a visual analogue scale
Time Frame: at 7 days, 3, and 6 months after the stay in the resort
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Fear of falling using a visual analogue scale (VAS) (0 to 10)(Scheffer-2010).
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at 7 days, 3, and 6 months after the stay in the resort
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Feeling of fatigue using a visual analogue scale
Time Frame: at 7 days, 3, and 6 months after the stay in the resort
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the feeling of fatigue using a visual analogue scale (0 to 10)(Wolfe-2004; Hewlett-2011)
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at 7 days, 3, and 6 months after the stay in the resort
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start (ACTUAL)
Primary Completion (ACTUAL)
Study Completion (ACTUAL)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (ACTUAL)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (ACTUAL)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Other Study ID Numbers
- RECHMPL16_0129
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
IPD Plan Description
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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