FallFitness Fallprevention Program for Older Adults

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

100 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2024-03-01

Study Completion Date

2025-12-31

Brief Summary

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The overall aim with this project is to collaborate with four organisations for retired persons located in a small region of middle Sweden. The project aims to test and evaluate a newly developed group-based fall prevention exercise program regarding the effects and experiences of both leading and participating in the intervention. The design of the study is a randomised controlled trial including a total of 100 participants (60+), 50 participants in the intervention and 50 participants in the control group.

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Detailed Description

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Research questions of interest in the project are:

1. Can an eight week (eight sessions) high intensity group based fall prevention program increase strength, balance, activity level, quality of life, self-efficacy as well as reduce sedentary behavior, fear of falling and fall frequency in older adults?
2. Can older adults learn fall techniques by participating in an eight-week (eight-session) high intensity group based fall prevention program?
3. What experiences are there from the trained leaders and the participants in the intervention?
4. How can the program be implemented in the organisations for retired persons, facilitators and barriers?

A total of at least 10 volunteers will be recruited from the organisations for retired persons and trained to be instructors of the FallFitness program. These FallFitness instructors will lead the intervention groups in the planned randomised controlled trial.

For the 50 participants randomized to the intervention group a eight program including six different central components, strength, balance, self-efficacy, motor skills, and falling technique will be introduced. Estimation of about ten participants in each group with a total of five groups are planned.

Materials needed are mainly soft judo carpets. The exercise takes place in groups and most of the exercises are done in pairs, which has been a successful concept in previously research on a similar programme, Judo4Balance.

Outcome measures of interest:

Strength, balance, quality of life, activity level, fear of falling, confidence in one's own ability to perform various activities without falling, fall frequency and falling techniques. Further a "train the trainer" approach will be evaluated for implementation and a long term perspective of fallprevention.

Conditions

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Fall Injury Fall Self Efficacy

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Randomised Controlled Trial

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study will be singled blinded (assessors)

Study Groups

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FallFitness intervention group

FallFitness 8-weeks exercise program, pre-and post assessment.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

FallFitness intervention group

Intervention Type OTHER

Eight week group-based fallprevention intervention. A total of eight session (1-hour once a week).

Control group

No treatment, standard information about fall prevention, pre-and post assessment.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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FallFitness intervention group

Eight week group-based fallprevention intervention. A total of eight session (1-hour once a week).

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* 60 years of age
* Fluent in Swedish language in both speech and writing

Exclusion Criteria

* Physically weak, cannot sit upright without support and/or holding up the neck in a lying position and or rolls backwards
* Coronary artery disease and unstable angina
* Recently cataract treatment

Minimum Eligible Age

60 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes