Active Lifestyle All Your Life-an Intervention Programme for Preventing Fall Injuries

Participation Clinical Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01391728
• Other study ID #: 20102011
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: July 11, 2011
• Last updated: February 6, 2013
• Start date: March 2011
• Est. completion date: November 2012

Study information

• Verified date: June 2011
• Source: Karolinska Institutet
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Karolinska Institutet:Stockholm:Sweden
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of the project is to formulate, implement and evaluate a new type of activity-orientated, evidence-based prevention programme to prevent fall injuries among elderly people. The question examined by the study is whether the intervention programme can:

• significantly reduce accidents and incidents involving falling among the participants,

• influence variables such as satisfaction with life, confidence in one's own ability and a feeling of involvement,

• be shown to be cost effective in terms of the use of resources. The intervention programme - Active lifestyle all your life - is being developed in and for primary care for the cost effective prevention of fall injuries among elderly people using a method that results in continued active life. The aim is to ensure that the elderly person is able to continue living an active life with commitment and involvement, which can in itself prevent fall injuries. This presupposes a knowledge of how to avoid fall injuries and the measures and aids that are available to prevent such injuries. The programme will also provide the participants with a social community in self-supporting groups which, by their own efforts but also with social support, are able to continue some of the activities provided through primary care.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 138
• Est. completion date: November 2012
• Est. primary completion date: November 2012
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 65 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• 65 or older

• Fall injury in the form of radius fracture or other minor documented fall injury, or one or more fall incidents reported in the last six months (reported to a district nurse in the 75-year discussion)

Exclusion Criteria:

• Cognitive impairments

• Documented psychiatric problems that make participation in organized group activity impossible

• Considerable difficulties in speaking and understanding Swedish

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Investigator), Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Frequency of Accidental Falls
• Occupational Gaps
• Participation
• Self-rated Health

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Active Lifestyle all your Life
Intervention After the first data collection the participants are randomised in an intervention and control group. The control group receives the normal treatment that may be given after a radius fracture and may vary from one care unit to another (but there is no preventive programme within the normal activity as far as we know). In groups of 6-8 participants the intervention group starts the programme "Active lifestyle all your life" with group meetings around every other week (10-12 times) and with 2 individual meetings directed at discussing fall risks in the participant's own home environment. After a summer break, Christmas and New Year three follow-up meetings take place, one of which is an individual meeting. The intervention is then terminated, but the participants are encouraged to continue the activity themselves.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Sweden	Karolinska Institutet	Stockholm

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Karolinska Institutet

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Sweden, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Accidental falls		Two Years (2010-2012)	Yes
Secondary	Participation Self-Rated health Self efficacy		Two Years (2010-2012)	No