Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT03599934
Effect of Home Exercise on Reducing Falls
The Effect of Lifestyle-integrated Functional Exercise Plus a Home Safety Visit on Reducing Falls in Community Older Fallers: a Randomized Controlled Trial
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 108 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Chinese University of Hong Kong · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 60 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
This proposed randomized controlled trial aims to study the long-term compliance of the LiFE program and its combined effects with a home safety visit on fall prevention in community-dwelling older fallers.
Detailed description
This will be a single-blinded randomized controlled trial. The subjects will be randomly assigned to the LiFE exercise plus home safety assessment group, or the control group by a computer program operated by an independent researcher. This study conforms to the ethical principles of the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| OTHER | Lifestyle integrated functional exercise program | Lifestyle-integrated exercise training targeting to improve strength and balance. Strategy to embed the exercise in the daily activity would also be taught so that the life exercise can be performed at any time of the day. The exercise would be taught in 6 home visits over 6-months. |
| OTHER | Home safety assessment | Home safety assessment and modification that targets to reduce environmental risk factors of falls. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2018-07-18
- Primary completion
- 2020-11-10
- Completion
- 2021-10-02
- First posted
- 2018-07-26
- Last updated
- 2021-11-18
Locations
2 sites across 1 country: Hong Kong
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03599934. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.