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Comprehensive Intervention for Falls Prevention in the Elderly

20. april 2016 opdateret af: Yan Press, Soroka University Medical Center
The purpose of this study is to determine whether the comprehensive multidisciplinary intervention (geriatrician, physical therapist and occupational therapist falls risk assessment and intervention)is effective in the falls prevention in the community dwelling elderly.

Studieoversigt

Status

Afsluttet

Betingelser

Intervention / Behandling

Detaljeret beskrivelse

Falls and related injuries among elderly people are a major public health problem worldwide.All older people with recurrent falls or assessed as being at increased risk of falling should be considered for an individualized multifactorial intervention.

In successful multifactorial intervention programmes the following specific components are common - against a background of the general diagnosis and management of causes and recognized risk factors:

  • exercise
  • home hazard assessment and intervention
  • vision assessment and referral
  • medications list review with modification/withdrawal We will address to 4000 randomly chosen patients from study population (elderly (65+) men and women, living in Beer-Sheva and Ofakim , Israel and belonging to Clalit HMO). This telephone interview will be conducted to reveal falls in last 12 months. The people who do fall (1 + falls) will be invited to research assistant.

In that meeting the research assistant will explain about the study aims and ask them to sign informed consent. Those who do not agree to participate - will be referred to their family doctor for further assessment.

Those who agree to participate in the study will fill in questionnaire about falls (causes, circumstance, results). All will pass through: cognitive assessment by the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), affective assessment by the 15-item Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS), functional assessment by Barthel Index (BI), visual assessment by Snellen charts and basic gait assessment by a "Timed get Up and Go" test (TU&G).

Participants that fulfill inclusion criteria will be randomly assigned to the intervention group or the control group. All participants will be instructed to call to the research assistant closely to each fall.

All information about assessment of patients in both groups will be transferred to the family physician. Their family physician according to his opinion will treat patients from usual care group.

A geriatrician, physiotherapist and occupational therapist will observe patients in the intervention group. OT will conduct a home visit to assess hazard and level of risk factor for falling. Results of assessment will be discussed on multi- disciplinary team meeting.

According to this plan each patient in this group will receive one or more following interventions:

  1. Written recommendation to the family physician for medication adjustment. As well, the geriatrician will discuss with family physician these recommendations.
  2. Recommendation to the family physician to refer the patient to optometrist/ ophthalmologist.
  3. Physical therapy: each subject in intervention group will get 15 weekly sessions (each session - 45 minutes) of specified exercise from a physical therapist that specializes in fall prevention and walking device recommendations. All subjects will get brochure for home exercise. It will be expected for intervention group to exercise twice daily, each time for 20 minutes in addition to the PT sessions.
  4. Occupational therapy: OT will make recommendation for changing any unsafe environments in the home.

First follow-up (four months after baseline assessment):

  1. OT will make a second home visit to each subject of the intervention group to check recommendation fulfillment.
  2. Study assistant will repeat baseline assessment (MMSE, GDS, BI, TU&G and visual assessment by Snellen chart).
  3. Information about falls and injuries as well as health care utilization will be collected from Clalit computerized system and Soroka Medical Center data base.
  4. Information about medication adjustment and changes will be collected from Clalit computerized system.

Second follow-up (12 months after baseline assessment ) :

  1. Study assistant will repeat baseline assessment (MMSE, GDS, BI, TUG test and visual assessment by Snellen chart).
  2. Information about falls and injuries as well as health care utilization will be collected from Clalit computerized system and Soroka Medical Center data base.
  3. Information about medication adjustment and changes will be collected from Clalit computerized system.

Undersøgelsestype

Interventionel

Tilmelding (Faktiske)

8

Fase

  • Ikke anvendelig

Kontakter og lokationer

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Studiesteder

      • Beer- Sheva, Israel
        • Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev

Deltagelseskriterier

Forskere leder efter personer, der passer til en bestemt beskrivelse, kaldet berettigelseskriterier. Nogle eksempler på disse kriterier er en persons generelle helbredstilstand eller tidligere behandlinger.

Berettigelseskriterier

Aldre berettiget til at studere

65 år og ældre (Ældre voksen)

Tager imod sunde frivillige

Ingen

Køn, der er berettiget til at studere

Alle

Beskrivelse

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Living in Beer Sheva or Ofakim , Israel
  • Members of Clalit HMO
  • 1 or more falls in past 12 month (self-reported)
  • Age 65 or more
  • Mobile outdoors without wheelchair

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Seriously ill patients - as dyspnea with light exercise, unstable heart disease
  • MMSE less than 18

Studieplan

Dette afsnit indeholder detaljer om studieplanen, herunder hvordan undersøgelsen er designet, og hvad undersøgelsen måler.

Hvordan er undersøgelsen tilrettelagt?

Design detaljer

  • Primært formål: Forebyggelse
  • Tildeling: Randomiseret
  • Interventionel model: Parallel tildeling
  • Maskning: Ingen (Åben etiket)

Våben og indgreb

Deltagergruppe / Arm
Intervention / Behandling
Eksperimentel: Intrevention group
each subject in intervention group will get 15 weekly sessions (each session - 45 minutes) of specified exercise from a physical therapist that specializes in fall prevention and walking device recommendations. All subjects will get brochure for home exercise. It will be expected for intervention group to exercise twice daily, each time for 20 minutes in addition to the PT sessions
Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Intervention
Ingen indgriben: Control group

Those who agree to participate in the study will fill in questionnaire about falls (causes, circumstance, results). All will pass through: cognitive assessment by the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), affective assessment by the 15-item Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS), functional assessment by Barthel Index (BI), visual assessment by Snellen charts and basic gait assessment by a "Timed get Up and Go" test (TU&G).

Participants that fulfill inclusion criteria will be randomly assigned to the intervention group or the control group

Hvad måler undersøgelsen?

Primære resultatmål

Resultatmål
Tidsramme
number of falls
Tidsramme: 4 and 12 monthes
4 and 12 monthes

Samarbejdspartnere og efterforskere

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Sponsor

Datoer for undersøgelser

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Studer store datoer

Studiestart

1. april 2008

Primær færdiggørelse (Faktiske)

1. juni 2011

Studieafslutning (Faktiske)

1. juni 2011

Datoer for studieregistrering

Først indsendt

19. december 2006

Først indsendt, der opfyldte QC-kriterier

19. december 2006

Først opslået (Skøn)

20. december 2006

Opdateringer af undersøgelsesjournaler

Sidste opdatering sendt (Skøn)

21. april 2016

Sidste opdatering indsendt, der opfyldte kvalitetskontrolkriterier

20. april 2016

Sidst verificeret

1. december 2006

Mere information

Begreber relateret til denne undersøgelse

Andre undersøgelses-id-numre

  • sor444506ctil

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