NCT02583386

Comprehensive Fall Prevention and Detection in Multiple Sclerosis

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 96 (actual)
• Sponsor: Portland VA Medical Center · Federal
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to examine whether an exercise and educational classroom program can help reduce falls in people with Multiple Sclerosis who fall frequently.

Detailed description

The investigators will recruit 94 people with Multiple Sclerosis, who report having fallen at least twice in the previous 2 months. Participants will be randomized to be placed in either a group that receives classroom training during the study, or into a wait-listed control group that will be offered the classroom training after their participation in the study is completed. All participants will receive mobility and quality of life assessments at baseline, 9 weeks, 5 months, and 8 months. All participants will be asked to record any falls they have on falls calendars. In addition, 30 participants will be randomized to wear electronic fall detectors on their bodies for the duration of the study. These detectors will record when and where falls occur, and this data will be compared with the participants' self-reported falls as recorded on the falls calendars.

Conditions

• Multiple Sclerosis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Free From Falls fall prevention program	Eight-week education and exercise program, intended to reduce falls in people with Multiple Sclerosis.
OTHER	Electronic Fall Detector	30 participants will be randomly selected to wear an electronic fall detector during the first 10 weeks of study participation. This fall detector will automatically record any falls occurring while worn.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-04-01
• Primary completion: 2019-10-01
• Completion: 2019-10-01
• First posted: 2015-10-22
• Last updated: 2021-03-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States