NCT03624777

Efficacy of the Stroll Safe Outdoor Fall Prevention Program

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 110 (actual)
• Sponsor: New York University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study examines the effectiveness of the Stroll Safe Outdoor Fall Prevention program, a 7-week group based educational intervention. Half of participants are assigned to the Stroll Safe program and half are assigned to a wait list control group that initially receives written information only on outdoor falls prevention.

Conditions

• Accidental Fall
• Injury Prevention
• Healthy Aging

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Outdoor Fall prevention brochure	Participants in the wait list control group will initially receive written information only about preventing outdoor falls
BEHAVIORAL	Stroll Safe outdoor fall prevention program	Participants in the treatment group will attend a once a week 7-week outdoor fall prevention program that includes didactic presentations, group discussions/ problem solving, practice in strategy use, and action planning for safe community mobility.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-01-14
• Primary completion: 2021-12-10
• Completion: 2022-05-18
• First posted: 2018-08-10
• Last updated: 2022-05-27

Locations

3 sites across 1 country: United States