NCT04134988

Effects of an Adapted Physical Activity With an Interactive Gaming Platform on Fear of Falling and Risk of Falling

Effects of an Adapted Physical Activity With an Interactive Gaming Platform on Fall Apprehension and Risk: A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Joel Belmin · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study evaluates the effects of an adapted physical activity with an interactive gaming platform on fall apprehension and risks. Half of the participants will receive a rehabilitation program using the Medimoov gaming program, the other half will receive the standard rehabilitation program.

Detailed description

Medimoov is an innovative interactive gaming platform offering adapted physical activity. Like most serious games, it targets both physical and cognitive components. Studies that evaluate serious games lack an appropriate control group, thus this study aims to evaluate the efficacy of serious games played with the Medimoov platform on fear of falling and fall risks. This pilot study is an open randomized controlled trial in parallel groups with blind data collection for the primary outcome. The intervention group will follow bi-weekly sessions with Medimoov. The control group will follow the usual rehabilitation program: the standard psychomotor therapy program. Both interventions will be consistent with rehabilitation programs prescribed by participants' physicians. Each intervention, guided by a psychomotor therapist, will last eight weeks with bi-weekly sessions of 35 minutes. Participants will be randomly assigned to one of the two groups. Three assessments will be conducted focusing on physical and cognitive capacities. The first assessment will be conducted five or fewer days before the beginning of the rehabilitation program, the second will occur during week 4 and the third one during week 8, at the end of the rehabilitation program. Assessments will be blinded: assessors will not know the assigned group of each participant.

Conditions

• Falls (Accidents) in Old Age

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Medimoov	The Medimoov game platform (created by NaturalPad©) is a physio-gaming medical device, which comes in the form of functional and postural rehabilitation software. Associating movement capture and videogames, Medimoov contributes to the older adults' motivation and engagement and offers adapted physical activities.
OTHER	Standard psychomotor therapy	Psychomotor therapists are among the professionals recommended by the French national health authority. They intervene on psychomotor dimensions of falls, namely the motor, sensory and cognitive aspects.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-12-09
• Primary completion: 2020-09-01
• Completion: 2020-09-01
• First posted: 2019-10-22
• Last updated: 2019-12-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France