Comparison of Home-based Video, Paper/Print Checklist and Professional Home Assessment in Detection of Fall Hazards at Home

McMaster University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Identification of Home Fall Hazards

Treatments: Behavioral: Video based/Therapists' rating of comprehensive-home-fall-hazard-checklist (vt-CHFHC); Behavioral: Paper based/Patient self-rating of comprehensive-home-fall-hazard-checklist (pp-CHFHC)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02775604

HIREB 1950

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to assess the feasibility and potential impact of video analysis of footage taken with a GoPro camera video in comparison to a homeowner checklist or gold standard home assessment as a means of detecting home fall hazards.

Investigators hypothesize that the assessment of homes for fall hazards with a GoPro camera will be better than a homeowner paper checklist in hazard identification.

Full description

80 community-dwelling adults (50-75 years of age) will be recruited from clinics and the community through posters and advertising (n = 40 in the Healthy Group; n = 40 in the Distal Radius Fracture (DRF) Group (adults with 3-12 months post-DRF)).

Participants will be randomly allocated to a homeowner paper checklist or a GoPro video assessment and then cross-over to the opposite intervention.

To assess accuracy, a gold standard home assessment will be completed by a trained evaluator, after the homeowner checklist and GoPro video assessment.

Upon completion of the data collection, the evaluator will conduct their assessment (gold standard); review the findings from the GoPro "playback" with the participant, and conduct a semi-structured interview on their prior awareness of fall hazards, perceptions about the different methods of detecting fall hazards in their home; and intentions to remediate identified hazards.

Enrollment: 45 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50 to 75 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Healthy Group: community-dwelling adults
• DRF Group: adults with 3-12 months post DRF
• ability to read, understand and speak English

Exclusion criteria

• identified cognitive disorder
• major loss of vision or hearing
• other concurrent upper extremity injuries or neurological impairments
• any unhealed fractures

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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45 participants in 2 patient groups

Home-Based Video

Other group

Description:

GoPro Camera

Treatment:

Behavioral: Video based/Therapists' rating of comprehensive-home-fall-hazard-checklist (vt-CHFHC)

Paper Checklist

Other group

Description:

Homeowner Print Checklist

Treatment:

Behavioral: Paper based/Patient self-rating of comprehensive-home-fall-hazard-checklist (pp-CHFHC)