Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT03879902
The Characteristics of Falls and Its Potential Predictors
The Characteristics of Falls in Community-dwelling Older Adults in Hong Kong and Its Potential Predictors
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 2,101 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Chinese University of Hong Kong · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 60 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
A prospective study to examine the fall characteristics among elderly faller in Hong Kong and the potential predictors of falls incidence.
Detailed description
This will be a prospective study. One thousand and five hundred older fallers would be recruited. Baseline assessments would be conducted to examine potential fall risk factors and the fall history. The subjects would be followed up for 1 year for fall incidence. This study conforms to the ethical principles of the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki.
Conditions
Timeline
- Start date
- 2017-07-20
- Primary completion
- 2020-11-10
- Completion
- 2020-11-10
- First posted
- 2019-03-19
- Last updated
- 2021-06-07
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Hong Kong
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