NCT03737097

Online Spaced Education to Improve Fall Prevention by Patients With Multiple Sclerosis

Impact of Online Spaced Education on Long-term Retention of Knowledge About Fall Prevention by Patients With Multiple Sclerosis

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 320 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, progressive and neurodegenerative inflammatory disease that affects young adults. In many countries it has been described as the main cause of neurological incapacity in this age group. Due to the neurological impairment, patients with multiple sclerosis have a high incidence of fall. According to studies, MS patients fall three times more than general population. In the present study, the question to be answered is: education of individuals with MS on fall prevention using the method of online spaced education provides better retention of knowledge than the traditional method? This is a clinical trial to compare two methods of education of MS patients for prevention of fall. First stage: Development and validation of materials. Step two: Pilot questions with MS patients. Step three: Intervention and evaluation of outcome.

Conditions

• Education of Patients

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Online Spaced Education	Investigators created a set of fall prevention strategies for multiple sclerosis patients into an evidence-based form of online education, termed 'spaced education' (SE). Based upon two psychology research findings (the spacing and testing effects), spaced education has been shown in randomized trials to improve knowledge acquisition, boosts learning retention for up to two years, and durably improves changes in behavior.
OTHER	Brochure Education	The investigators translated and validated the Minimizing Your Risk of Falls A GUIDE FOR PEOPLE WITH MS brochure developed by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. The control cohort will receive the main education model for patients that has been used in the past few years.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-02-21
• Primary completion: 2019-10-15
• Completion: 2019-11-15
• First posted: 2018-11-09
• Last updated: 2019-03-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil