NCT03592420

Brief Summary

Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) aiming at assessing the efficacy of an interdisciplinary multi-component and personalized multi-factorial intervention for reducing falls at one year post-enrolment in comparison to the usual care in a sample of community dwelling elderly (age ≥65 years), with or without Parkinson's Disease and/or previous Stroke.

Trial Health

87
On Track

Trial Health Score

Automated assessment based on enrollment pace, timeline, and geographic reach

Enrollment
366

participants targeted

Target at P75+ for not_applicable

Timeline
Completed

Started Dec 2014

Typical duration for not_applicable

Geographic Reach
1 country

2 active sites

Status
completed

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Trial Relationships

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Study Timeline

Key milestones and dates

Study Start

First participant enrolled

December 31, 2014

Completed
2 years until next milestone

Primary Completion

Last participant's last visit for primary outcome

December 31, 2016

Completed
6 months until next milestone

Study Completion

Last participant's last visit for all outcomes

June 30, 2017

Completed
12 months until next milestone

First Submitted

Initial submission to the registry

June 25, 2018

Completed
24 days until next milestone

First Posted

Study publicly available on registry

July 19, 2018

Completed
Last Updated

July 19, 2018

Status Verified

July 1, 2018

Enrollment Period

2 years

First QC Date

June 25, 2018

Last Update Submit

July 9, 2018

Conditions

Keywords

Accidental fallsClinical trialAgedParkinson's DiseaseStrokeExerciseEducation

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

  • Fall rate at 12 months from enrolment

    The primary endpoint will be the total number of falls (fall rate) occurred in each arm within 12 months from enrolment. This endpoint will be recorded by participants in a fall diary (which will be collected from each participant at month 12). Recorded information in the fall diary will be monitored monthly with follow-up calls

    Months 1 - Months 12

Secondary Outcomes (8)

  • Risk of falling at 12 months from enrolment

    Months 1 - Months 12

  • Percentage of falls associated to hospital admission at 12 months from enrolment

    Months 1 - Months 12

  • Severity of the fall

    Months 1 - Months 12

  • Mortality attributable to fall

    Months 1 - Months 12

  • Fall-free interval time

    Months 1 - Months 12

  • +3 more secondary outcomes

Study Arms (2)

Interdisciplinary interventions

EXPERIMENTAL

Multicomponent interventions * On-site supervised group exercise program (11 weeks) * Educational / behavioral sessions addressing specific behavioral and environmental risk factors for falls delivered by trained health professionals (11 sessions in total) * Home visits for suggestion and implementations of safety interventions aiming at reducing environmental hazards * Home-based exercise program: Personalized multi-factorial interventions: patients will have geriatric, neurology and physiatrist outpatient referrals to assess and treat individual risk factors. Personalized multi-factorial interventions. Patients will have geriatric, neurology and physiatrist outpatient referrals to assess and treat individual risk factors

Behavioral: Interdisciplinary multicomponent interventions

Usual care

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Usual care: after pre-test assessment and randomization, participants in the control group will be given a structured booklet with detailed information about participant's own personal risk factors (fall risk profile) to be given to the family doctor, together with an information booklet on fall risk factors and their prevention.

Behavioral: Usual care

Interventions

Interdisciplinary interventions
Usual careBEHAVIORAL

standard care

Usual care

Eligibility Criteria

Age65 Years+
Sexall
Healthy VolunteersNo
Age GroupsOlder Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

  • Community-dwelling elderly (aged ≥65 years)
  • Moderate to high fall risk, either associated to aging or to neurological diseases as Parkinson's Disease and stroke.
  • Ability to walk 10 meters without assistance (walking aid permitted)
  • Informed consent to participation

You may not qualify if:

  • Whatever concurrent medical condition which may constitutes a contraindication to physical exercise
  • Known cognitive decline or an established diagnosis of dementia (mini mental score \>24) or an evident cognitive decline on pre-enrolment which would be likely to impair the ability of comprehension of simple instructions and / or of collaborating
  • Severe hearing impairment, so that a subject will not understand less than 80% of ordinary conversation with/or without hearing aids.
  • Severe hypovision, not counteracted by lenses, which will limit the patient in executing at least one activity of daily living (for instance, necessity of assistance for walking because of visual deficit).
  • Severe aphasia or visuo-spatial deficits, to the extent that these impairments will limit significantly the ability to comprehend (orally or visually) simple instructions.
  • Acute vertigo or dizziness lasting less than 3 months
  • Regular participation to other exercise program that it is likely to challenge balance, including physical therapy.

Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Study Sites (2)

Nuovo Ospedale Civile Sant'Agostino Estense

Modena, 41121, Italy

Location

Arcispedale "Santa Maria Nuova" di Reggio Emilia

Reggio Emilia, 42121, Italy

Location

Related Publications (4)

  • Gillespie LD, Robertson MC, Gillespie WJ, Sherrington C, Gates S, Clemson LM, Lamb SE. Interventions for preventing falls in older people living in the community. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2012 Sep 12;2012(9):CD007146. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD007146.pub3.

  • Weiss A, Herman T, Plotnik M, Brozgol M, Giladi N, Hausdorff JM. An instrumented timed up and go: the added value of an accelerometer for identifying fall risk in idiopathic fallers. Physiol Meas. 2011 Dec;32(12):2003-18. doi: 10.1088/0967-3334/32/12/009. Epub 2011 Nov 17.

  • Schoene D, Wu SM, Mikolaizak AS, Menant JC, Smith ST, Delbaere K, Lord SR. Discriminative ability and predictive validity of the timed up and go test in identifying older people who fall: systematic review and meta-analysis. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2013 Feb;61(2):202-8. doi: 10.1111/jgs.12106. Epub 2013 Jan 25.

  • La Porta F, Lullini G, Caselli S, Valzania F, Mussi C, Tedeschi C, Pioli G, Bondavalli M, Bertolotti M, Banchelli F, D'Amico R, Vicini R, Puglisi S, Clerici PV, Chiari L; PRECISA Group. Efficacy of a multiple-component and multifactorial personalized fall prevention program in a mixed population of community-dwelling older adults with stroke, Parkinson's Disease, or frailty compared to usual care: The PRE.C.I.S.A. randomized controlled trial. Front Neurol. 2022 Sep 1;13:943918. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2022.943918. eCollection 2022.

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Parkinson DiseaseStrokeMotor Activity

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Parkinsonian DisordersBasal Ganglia DiseasesBrain DiseasesCentral Nervous System DiseasesNervous System DiseasesMovement DisordersSynucleinopathiesNeurodegenerative DiseasesCerebrovascular DisordersVascular DiseasesCardiovascular DiseasesBehavior

Study Officials

  • Fabio La Porta, MD

    AZIENDA USL DI MODENA

    PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

Study Type
interventional
Phase
not applicable
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
SINGLE
Who Masked
OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
Purpose
PREVENTION
Intervention Model
PARALLEL
Sponsor Type
OTHER
Responsible Party
SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

First Submitted

June 25, 2018

First Posted

July 19, 2018

Study Start

December 31, 2014

Primary Completion

December 31, 2016

Study Completion

June 30, 2017

Last Updated

July 19, 2018

Record last verified: 2018-07

Data Sharing

IPD Sharing
Will not share

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