Active Lifestyle All Your Life-an Intervention Programme for Preventing Fall Injuries

NCT01391728 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 20102011
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 138
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The purpose of the project is to formulate, implement and evaluate a new type of activity-orientated, evidence-based prevention programme to prevent fall injuries among elderly people. The question examined by the study is whether the intervention programme can:

• significantly reduce accidents and incidents involving falling among the participants,
• influence variables such as satisfaction with life, confidence in one's own ability and a feeling of involvement,
• be shown to be cost effective in terms of the use of resources. The intervention programme - Active lifestyle all your life - is being developed in and for primary care for the cost effective prevention of fall injuries among elderly people using a method that results in continued active life. The aim is to ensure that the elderly person is able to continue living an active life with commitment and involvement, which can in itself prevent fall injuries. This presupposes a knowledge of how to avoid fall injuries and the measures and aids that are available to prevent such injuries. The programme will also provide the participants with a social community in self-supporting groups which, by their own efforts but also with social support, are able to continue some of the activities provided through primary care.

Conditions

Frequency of Accidental Falls; Participation; Self-rated Health; Occupational Gaps

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Accidental falls

  Two Years (2010-2012)

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Participation Self-Rated health Self efficacy

  Two Years (2010-2012)

Study Arms (2)

Lifestyle counseling

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Behavioral: Active Lifestyle all your Life

Control

NO INTERVENTION

Interventions

Active Lifestyle all your Life BEHAVIORAL

Intervention After the first data collection the participants are randomised in an intervention and control group. The control group receives the normal treatment that may be given after a radius fracture and may vary from one care unit to another (but there is no preventive programme within the normal activity as far as we know). In groups of 6-8 participants the intervention group starts the programme "Active lifestyle all your life" with group meetings around every other week (10-12 times) and with 2 individual meetings directed at discussing fall risks in the participant's own home environment. After a summer break, Christmas and New Year three follow-up meetings take place, one of which is an individual meeting. The intervention is then terminated, but the participants are encouraged to continue the activity themselves.

Lifestyle counseling

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 65 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• or older
• Fall injury in the form of radius fracture or other minor documented fall injury, or one or more fall incidents reported in the last six months (reported to a district nurse in the 75-year discussion)

You may not qualify if:

• Cognitive impairments
• Documented psychiatric problems that make participation in organized group activity impossible
• Considerable difficulties in speaking and understanding Swedish

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Karolinska Institutet: lead

Study Sites (1)

Karolinska Institutet

Stockholm, Sweden

Location

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: INVESTIGATOR
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: July 11, 2011
• First Posted: July 12, 2011
• Study Start: March 1, 2011
• Primary Completion: November 1, 2012
• Study Completion: November 1, 2012
• Last Updated: February 7, 2013

Record last verified: 2011-06

Locations

SE (1)