NCT05815875

The Effect of The STEADI Program on Falls and Falls Prevention in Neurosurgical Patients in Jordan

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 70 (actual)
• Sponsor: King Abdullah University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this interventional study will be to evaluate the effectiveness of the STEADI Program on falls and falling prevention compared with routine falling assessment in neurosurgical patients in Jordan. The researchers will compare the effectiveness of the STEADI intervention in the intervention group. Participants in the intervention group will be assessed for falls risk using well-established tools as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The control group participants will receive regular falling assessment which involves using Morse Fall Scale.

Detailed description

The STEADI (Stopping Elderly Accidents, Deaths \& Injuries) program was developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to help healthcare providers address falls among older adults. The STEADI program provides healthcare providers with tools and resources to screen their older patients for fall risk, assess risk factors, and develop and implement an individualized fall prevention plan. The STEADI program is an evidence-based approach to fall prevention and has been shown to reduce falls among older adults. However, evidence regarding the effectiveness and usefulness of the STEADI among neurosurgery patients is lacking. The investigators of the current research will conduct a 2-hour educational session to train healthcare providers in a neurosurgery unit on using the STEADI tools and algorithm. Then, the investigators will collect data to assess whether applying the STEADI decreases the risk for falls in neurosurgery patients.

Conditions

• Fall Patients

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
COMBINATION_PRODUCT	STEADI Program	The investigators will conduct STEADI Algorithm for Falls Prevention educational sessions for healthcare providers in the neurosurgery unit, including doctors, nurses, physical therapists, and pharmacists. All healthcare providers in the neurosurgery unit will be invited to attend the educational sessions. Their participation will be voluntary and no obligations will be made, though. Healthcare providers will be invited to attend one 2-hour educational session. In each session, The investigators will have between 8-10 healthcare providers. The educational sessions will be delivered in the classroom available in the neurosurgery unit to facilitate the healthcare providers' access. PowerPoint presentations, videos, quizzes, case studies, and in-class discussions will be used to deliver learning content during the educational sessions. Healthcare providers will then be asked to apply the STEADI interventions on a group of patients.
OTHER	Routine care	The control group participants will receive routine care. Routine care involves only assessing for falls using Morse Falls Scale (MFS). MFS assesses a patient's fall risk upon admission, following a change in status, and at discharge or transfer to a new setting.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-03-01
• Primary completion: 2023-07-31
• Completion: 2023-08-31
• First posted: 2023-04-18
• Last updated: 2023-09-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Jordan