The Characteristics of Falls and Its Potential Predictors

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Status: Completed

Conditions: Fall Patients

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03879902

2018.076

Details and patient eligibility

About

A prospective study to examine the fall characteristics among elderly faller in Hong Kong and the potential predictors of falls incidence.

Full description

This will be a prospective study. One thousand and five hundred older fallers would be recruited. Baseline assessments would be conducted to examine potential fall risk factors and the fall history. The subjects would be followed up for 1 year for fall incidence. This study conforms to the ethical principles of the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki.

Enrollment: 2,101 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• aged 60 or older
• able to ambulate with a Functional Ambulation Category (FAC) score ≥ 3
• able to walk for ≥ 10 meters
• history of falls in the past 12 months
• living in the community
• able to understand Chinese

Exclusion criteria

• blindness