Public Health Concerns of Elderly Fallers and Non-fallers in a Community

Aging Clinical Trial

Official title:

Public Health Concerns of Elderly Fallers and Non-fallers in a Southeastern Community of Brazil

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02177968
• Other study ID #: HCRP9879/2011
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: June 23, 2014
• Last updated: June 27, 2014
• Start date: August 2012
• Est. completion date: December 2012

Study information

• Verified date: June 2014
• Source: University of Sao Paulo
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Brazil: National Committee of Ethics in Research
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to identify the prevalence and the characterization of health of elderly fallers and non-fallers in the southeastern community of Brazil in the state of São Paulo.

Description:

The population consisted of 638 elderly individuals enrolled and attended by the teams of the Family Health Strategy in the city of Araraquara, São Paulo state. The sample was selected in a systematic way, considering the order of micro-areas, 1-7, which 10% sampling error, 15% rate answer. To this, instruments were used based SABE Study, Health Wellbeing and Aging modified, and the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ), short version.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 100
• Est. completion date: December 2012
• Est. primary completion date: December 2012
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 60 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• People aged 60 years and over

Exclusion Criteria:

• Vestibular alteration

• Postoperative requiring continuous home

• Low vision or complete blind

• Bedridden

• Empty house

• Subjects without registration at the health family unity

Study Design

Observational Model: Case-Only, Time Perspective: Cross-Sectional

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Accidental Falls
• Aging

Intervention

Other:
• descriptive analysis of characteristics
comparison between elderly fallers and non-fallers

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Brazil	Educação Permanente, Prefeitura Municipal de Araraquara	Araraquara	Sao Paulo

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Sao Paulo

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Brazil, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Healthy, Well-being and Aging questionnaire		5 months	Yes