Online Spaced Education to Improve Fall Prevention by Patients With Multiple Sclerosis

Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Education of Patients

Treatments: Other: Brochure Education; Other: Online Spaced Education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03737097

HIAEfallMS

Details and patient eligibility

About

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, progressive and neurodegenerative inflammatory disease that affects young adults. In many countries it has been described as the main cause of neurological incapacity in this age group. Due to the neurological impairment, patients with multiple sclerosis have a high incidence of fall. According to studies, MS patients fall three times more than general population. In the present study, the question to be answered is: education of individuals with MS on fall prevention using the method of online spaced education provides better retention of knowledge than the traditional method? This is a clinical trial to compare two methods of education of MS patients for prevention of fall. First stage: Development and validation of materials. Step two: Pilot questions with MS patients. Step three: Intervention and evaluation of outcome.

Enrollment: 320 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Multiple sclerosis diagnosis
• Accept to be part in the study
• Have valid e-mail address

Exclusion criteria

• Healthcare professionals;

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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320 participants in 2 patient groups

Online Spaced Education

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention cohort will participate in an online spaced education on fall prevention education developed for patients with multiple sclerosis.

Treatment:

Other: Online Spaced Education

Brochure Education

Active Comparator group

Description:

The control cohort will receive the fall prevention education in bolus through a Brochure developed by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. The brochure was translated to portuguese and will be used in the study with authorization of the Society.

Treatment:

Other: Brochure Education