Assessment and Referral Versus Exercise in Primary Prevention of Falls: PA Healthy Steps Program

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Lower Extremity Weakness Distal, Distorted; Balance

In brief

Older adults at high risk of falls will complete the PA Healthy Steps program. This program will be implemented by research staff who will follow the training manual and implement the program as it was designed to assess the effectiveness of the program. Participants will then be randomly assigned to three arms: (i) Follow-up only; (ii) Falls case management, in which adherence to physician and home safety assessments will be facilitated; and (iii) Healthy Steps in Motion, a 4-week group exercise program designed to complement Healthy Steps. All participants will be followed monthly for 6 months through personal and automated telephone interview protocols to ascertain falls and injuries.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01552551

Run by

University of Pittsburgh

People needed

189

Starts

2012-05-01

Expected to finish

2013-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-12-30

Who can join

Age: 50 and older, up to 100. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Able to provide informed consent
• Willing to be randomized
• Scoring in the lowest tertile on at least one test in the Healthy Steps lower extremity performance battery
• Age 50+

You may not qualify if…

• Hospice enrollee or life-threatening illness
• Active cancer treatment
• Neurologic disease linked to falls risk, such as Parkinson's
• Unable to ambulate indoors
• High likelihood of moving in next 6 months

Where it is running

• University of Pittsburgh — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

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