Osteoporosis and Fall Prevention Education

Osteoporosis Clinical Trial

Official title:

Osteoporosis and Fall Prevention Education With High Risk Population Telephone Follow up Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01934400
• Other study ID #: 201303003RINC
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: August 26, 2013
• Last updated: April 22, 2014
• Start date: April 2013
• Est. completion date: December 2013

Study information

• Verified date: April 2014
• Source: National Taiwan University Hospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Taiwan: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Objective: The study is to increasing osteoporosis awareness with fracture risk assessments and management as well as fall prevention among elderly in northern region of Taiwan.

Method: Six community osteoporosis and fall prevention educational programme will be held at northern region of Taiwan. A questionnaires design including demographic variables , FRAX variables, nutritional variables and osteoporosis and fall knowledge variables as well.The pretest-posttest method was used to analyse the effect on education.

Expected outcomes : (1)Fall prevention educational programme will hold in northern region of Taiwan at different communities in order to increasing osteoporosis awareness with fracture risk assessment tool, establishing fall knowledges among elderly and some fall prevention skills.(2)Elderly with 10-year probability of major osteoporotic fracture risk who more than 20% and 10-year probability of hip fracture risk who more than 3% will identify as high risk of osteoporosis. (3) To estimate number of cases who identified as high risk will recommend for BMD measurement.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 127
• Est. completion date: December 2013
• Est. primary completion date: October 2013
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 40 Years to 90 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Adults between the ages of 40 to 90.

2. Adults who been fractures prior to assessment.

3. Adults who have ability, well conscious to complete the questionnaires.

Exclusion Criteria:

1.Adults who have treatment currently will not include in this study.

Study Design

Observational Model: Case-Only, Time Perspective: Prospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Osteoporosis

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Taiwan	National Taiwan University Hospital	Taipei

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
National Taiwan University Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Taiwan, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Measurement of effects of fall prevention education.	The primary outcomes is to determine the effects after investigaor given the fall prevention education. The pretest-posttest method was used to analyse the effect on education.	6-months	No