NCT01829776

Pilot Study of Free From Falls Program in Multiple Sclerosis

Pilot Study on the Effect of the Free From Falls Program on Falls in People With Multiple Sclerosis

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 13 (actual)
• Sponsor: Oregon Health and Science University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 89 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This pilot study will compare how often people with multiple sclerosis (MS) fall before participating in the Free From Falls (FFF) educational program, during the program, and for 8 weeks after the program. The protocol will also evaluate the accuracy, efficiency and convenience of an email survey to count how often people fall.

Detailed description

This pilot study will recruit people with MS who report falling at least twice in the previous 2 months to participate in the FFF program. All subjects will record their falls and injurious falls on a daily basis for at least 3 weeks before the program, during the program and for 8 weeks after the program. The program will consist of a weekly 2 hour session. One hour of the session will be educational and one hour of the program will involve exercise. The outcome of this study will be change in fall rate between the periods before, during and after the program.

Conditions

• Multiple Sclerosis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Educational intervention	This is an 8-week comprehensive fall prevention exercise and education program, with one 2-hour session each week, for people with MS, adapted from a similar program for older adults.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-04-01
• Primary completion: 2014-09-01
• Completion: 2014-09-01
• First posted: 2013-04-11
• Last updated: 2014-11-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States