The Effects of a Tele-health Program

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Frailty; Old Age; Debility

Treatments: Procedure: Individualized motion-based interactive game program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05267444

P0036805

Details and patient eligibility

About

Frailty is a state of being vulnerable and functional disable due to age-related decline of multiple physiological systems, and is often associated with higher risk of falls, institutionalization, hospitalization, disability, dementia, and death. One of the best strategies to combat the burden of frailty is to promote physical activity in the aging population, especially to the older adults who are already in a frail condition

Enrollment: 202 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

For older adults:

Inclusion Criteria:

• aged 60 or above
• having level of frailty from "managing well" to "living with severe frailty" (Clinical Frailty Scale score 3-7) -- HK-MoCA score 23 or less (add one point to people who had less than 6 year formal education and add 2 points to people who had no formal education)

Exclusion Criteria:

• currently receiving any kind of rehabilitation service
• living with another older adult who is participating in the same study.

For young adults:

Inclusion Criteria:

• aged 17 to 35
• having educational level of secondary 5 or above

Exclusion Criteria:

• having a full-time job

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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202 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

Individualized motion-based interactive game program

Treatment:

Procedure: Individualized motion-based interactive game program

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group participants will receive usual care, that is, service that provided by community elderly center