NCT02727374

Fear to Fall Reduction in Geriatric Patients Who Suffered Previous Falls

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 52 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Valencia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Fear to fall has been proven to be a risk factor affecting those geriatric patients who have previously suffered a fall. In this work it is assessed the effectiveness of a physiotherapy and psychological combined intervention, aimed at reducing the fear to fall in the aforementioned patients

Detailed description

One of the main consequences of falling is the fear to fall again. This involves changes in the elderly behaviour which leads to a reduction of the physical activity, higher need of cares, reduction of the quality of life and risk of social isolation. In this framework, this works is aimed at performing a treatment to reduce the fear to fall in those geriatrics patients with previous falls, based on the combination of physical activity, health education and cognitive-behavioural psychological treatment targeted to this effect. The reason is that literature points at combined treatment use to present higher effectiveness

Conditions

• Geriatric Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Physiotherapy intervention	Physiotherapy intervention consists of conventional exercise program administered to this kind of patients at Hospital Clinico, including strengthening and balance exercises
BEHAVIORAL	Cognitive-behavioural Intervention	Psychological treatment consists of group talks to treat the fear to fall

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-12-01
• Primary completion: 2018-12-01
• Completion: 2018-12-01
• First posted: 2016-04-04
• Last updated: 2017-06-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain