Status:
NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Clinical Impact of a Digital Home-based Falls Prevention Program on Elderly People
Lead Sponsor:
Sword Health, SA
Conditions:
Fall
Eligibility:
All Genders
65+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
This study is a single-center, prospective, non-blind, parallel-group, randomized controlled trial with an experimental and a control group with the aim of evaluating the clinical impact of a home-bas...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Patients aged over 65 years old
- Ability to walk at least 20 meters, unaided or with unilateral support
- Ability to understand motor complex commands
- Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) score \> 24 points
- Functional independence for instrumental activities of daily living
- Risk of recurrent falls, defined as 5xSST score \> 15,00 seconds
Exclusion
- Patients residing in nursing homes, daycare units or assisted-living facilities
- Aphasia, dementia or psychiatric comorbidity, significantly interfering with communication or compliance with a home-based exercise program
- Severe visual our hearing, interfering with communication or with compliance to a home-based exercise program
- Cardiac, respiratory or other condition incompatible with at least 30 minutes of light to moderate physical activity
- Osteoarticular conditions (e.g. severe osteoarthrosis), which prevent the patient from complying with a home-based exercise program
- Patients with neurologic conditions (e.g. stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease)
- Other medical complications, which prevent the patient from complying with a home-based exercise program
- Illiteracy
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
May 1 2025
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
November 1 2026
Estimated Enrollment :
100 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT03750500
Start Date
May 1 2025
End Date
November 1 2026
Last Update
December 6 2024
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USF Aldoar
Porto, Portugal