NCT01778972

Fall Prevention for Old Community-dwelling People

Fall Prevention for Old Community-dwelling People in Uppsala, Västerås and Sörmland

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 420 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Uppsala University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Fall-related injuries are a major health problem in the growing older population. Most older people are not aware of that physical training can decrease the risk of falling. The aim of tha study is to investigate the effect of the Otago home exercise programme with and without motivational interviewing in community-dwelling people 75 years or older on frequence of falls, fall-related injuries, physical capacity, fall-related self-efficacy, quality of life, mortality and health-related costs.

Detailed description

Participants in the two intervention groups will exercise at home with supervision from physiotherapist week one, two, four and eight. They will then be contacted for telephone follow-up month five, seven and twelve after the start of training. The control group is encouraged to live as usual. All participants are assessed at baseline, after three, 12 and 24 months from inclusion in the study.

Conditions

• Physical Activity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Otago home exercise programme	Otago home exercise program was designed specifically to prevent falls. It consists of a set of leg muscle strengthening and balance retraining exercises progressing in difficulty, and a walking plan. The exercise are individually prescribed and increase in difficulty during a series of five home visits by a physiotherapist.
OTHER	Motivational interviewing plus Otago	This group is not only exercising at home but also getting motivational interviewing from the physiotherapist at he five home visits. The physiotherapists doing motivational interviewing are specially trained in motivational interviewing.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-11-01
• Primary completion: 2018-12-01
• Completion: 2019-12-01
• First posted: 2013-01-29
• Last updated: 2021-09-29

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Sweden