Fear to Fall Reduction in Geriatric Patients Who Suffered Previous Falls (FFALL_GER)

University of Valencia

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Geriatric Disorder

Treatments: Other: Physiotherapy intervention; Behavioral: Cognitive-behavioural Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02727374

CI_UValencia1

Details and patient eligibility

About

Fear to fall has been proven to be a risk factor affecting those geriatric patients who have previously suffered a fall. In this work it is assessed the effectiveness of a physiotherapy and psychological combined intervention, aimed at reducing the fear to fall in the aforementioned patients

Full description

One of the main consequences of falling is the fear to fall again. This involves changes in the elderly behaviour which leads to a reduction of the physical activity, higher need of cares, reduction of the quality of life and risk of social isolation. In this framework, this works is aimed at performing a treatment to reduce the fear to fall in those geriatrics patients with previous falls, based on the combination of physical activity, health education and cognitive-behavioural psychological treatment targeted to this effect. The reason is that literature points at combined treatment use to present higher effectiveness

Enrollment: 52 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Community-dwelling older people
• Looking for Physiotherapy attendance
• Patients who have suffered at least one fall episode
• Patients with fear of falling

Exclusion criteria

• Some cognitive affection that may affect the intervention

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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52 participants in 2 patient groups

EXPERIMENTAL

Experimental group

Description:

Physiotherapy intervention, plus cognitive-behavioural intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: Cognitive-behavioural Intervention

Other: Physiotherapy intervention

CONTROL

Active Comparator group

Description:

Physiotherapy intervention

Treatment:

Other: Physiotherapy intervention