An End-to-end System for Assessment and Intervention of Frailty — SAIF  

Frailty Clinical Trial

Official title: SAIF: An End-to-end System for Assessment and Intervention of Frailty

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

The study aims to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of using SAIF (an end-to-end System for Assessment and Intervention of Frailty) to reduce the risk and delay the progress of physical frailty.

Clinical Trial Description

SAIF is a personalised, community-based system for both assessment and intervention of frailty. It comprises of 8 modules categorised into

1. Interface: virtual nurse and caregiver gateway

2. Assessment: computerised screening using Fried Frailty Phenotype (FFP) and FRAIL instruments, Gamified Walking While Talking to assess frailty status and predictive analytics to predict participant's frailty risk

3. Intervention: Physical exercise kiosks (Cycling and Taichi) incorporated with games, polypharmacy management and nutrition recommendation

A total of 105 eligible community-dwelling older adults were recruited and randomised either to control arm or intervention arm using a single-consent Zelen's design. Allocation concealment was achieved using permutated block randomisation; both research assistant and participant were blinded to randomisation list during enrolment.

All participants completed baseline assessment and subsequent follow-up assessments (2-month, 4-month and 7-month). Additionally, participants in the intervention arm began SAIF interaction for a period of 4 months upon completion of their baseline assessment. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Frailty

• NCT number: NCT05371210
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Tan Tock Seng Hospital
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 15, 2021
• Completion date: June 16, 2022