Multimedia Education for Frail Patients

Asia University

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Frailty

Treatments: Other: Health education strategy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06579534

AsiaU1

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to explore the impact of precision health care interventions on inpatients in acute medical institutions regarding their risk of falls, management, and prevention knowledge, as well as the incidence of falls among these patients. The main questions it aims to answer are:

What is the effectiveness of precision health care interventions on inpatients' knowledge of fall risk in acute medical institutions? What is the effectiveness of precision health care interventions on inpatients' knowledge of fall management in acute medical institutions? What is the effectiveness of precision health care interventions on inpatients' knowledge of fall prevention in acute medical institutions?

Full description

Frailty relates to the concept of physical deterioration associated with the aging process, which includes a weakening of the physiological and integrated physical strength of the body, its reserve and resistance to stressors, resulting in poor health, such as loss of physical and mental performance. Frailty is an important health care topic in patients with geriatric syndromes. Once the elderly enter the early stage of frailty, they are likely to fall repeatedly. Studies have shown that frailty and premature aging are important predictors of falls in the elderly. Therefore, professional medical staff should use frailty assessment indicators as early as possible to assess the possibility of frailty among the elderly in medical institutions or communities. At the same time, effective prevention strategies should be adopted to prevent reduce the incidence of falls due to frailty and improve the quality of life of patients and the elderly. Therefore, assessment of possible falls and frailty risks is a priority in acute care settings.

Enrollment: 102 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 100 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Patients admitted to general acute wards and surgical patients
2. Fall assessment score ≥ 3% of the high-risk group for falls

Exclusion criteria

1. Patients who were bedridden for a long time before admission
2. Patients suffering from mental illness
3. The patient or primary caregiver cannot respond effectively

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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102 participants in 2 patient groups

Device: Oral Explanation of Paper-Based Health Education

No Intervention group

Description:

Before the patient is discharged from the hospital, the nurse orally informs the patient about the precautions for preventing falls after discharge using a discharge health education leaflet.

Device: Multimedia Video Health Education on Fall Prevention

Experimental group

Description:

Multimedia audio-visual health education tools: Taking fall risk factors, self-health management and fall prevention measures as the main teaching plan, investigators produce multimedia digital audio-visual teaching materials in Chinese version for adults, Chinese version for children, and English version for adults, with built-in AI patented artificial intelligence automatic dubbing, and matching Chinese or English subtitles and lively 3D virtual lecturers are presented on the screen to explain the course, and pictures, physical photos, short videos, etc. are used as the main content, allowing viewers to quickly and conveniently grasp the key points and absorb knowledge.

Treatment:

Other: Health education strategy