NCT03167840

Falls Prevention Through Physical And Cognitive Training in Mild Cognitive Impairment

Falls Prevention Through Physical And Cognitive Training (Falls PACT) in Older Adults With Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Randomised Controlled Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 95 (actual)
• Sponsor: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This randomised controlled trial aims to determine the effectiveness of combined physical and cognitive training in preventing falls and decreasing risks of falls among community-dwelling older persons with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

Detailed description

This is a single-blind, multicentre, randomised controlled trial. Community-dwelling older adults with MCI aged 60 or above will be recruited. They will be randomly allocated into four groups: Physical Training alone (PT), Cognitive Training alone (CT), combined Physical And Cognitive Training (PACT) and wait-list group (WG). Assessors blinded to participant allocation will conduct pre-test, posttest, and 6-month follow-up assessments.

Conditions

• Mild Cognitive Impairment

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Physical and Cognitive Training	Physical Exercise and Cognitive Training
BEHAVIORAL	Physical Training	Physical training alone
BEHAVIORAL	Cognitive training	Cognitive training alone

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-09-06
• Primary completion: 2018-01-31
• Completion: 2018-08-31
• First posted: 2017-05-30
• Last updated: 2018-04-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Philippines