Validating Wireless Gait Sensor for Elderly Fall Risk Classification

Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Elderly Person

Treatments: Device: Walking analysis sensor

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06398431

11-2023-001

Details and patient eligibility

About

The walking status of elderly patients over 65 years of age in the hospital will be verified through political analysis and objective fall risk assessment through wireless inertial sensors and diagnostic machine learning models, and based on the results, As investigators, providing a foundation for the objective evaluation of the risk of falling patients by nurses in general wards in the future.

Full description

Currently, in the case of general clinical wards in Korea, the evaluator who assesses the risk of falling during the patient's hospitalization changes every time, and the evaluation of fall risk differs for the same patient depending on the subjectivity of the evaluator. Hence, evaluating falls requires assessing the patient's walking based on consistent criteria. Through walking analysis with a wireless small inertial sensor, there is an expectation that the incidence of fall risk will decrease. When analyzing walking to classify fall risk groups, quantitative evaluation should be applied for stride length, gait speed, step width, cadence, and gait cycle, but currently, fall assessments taking this into account are not properly conducted. Therefore, it is necessary to prepare and apply quantitative standards for fall evaluation through walking analysis through wireless small inertial sensors and data machine learning to classify the risk of falling in elderly hospitalized patients.

Enrollment: 51 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 55+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. a person over the age of 55
2. Persons who can walk independently for at least one minute
3. Those who do not take drugs that affect their ability to maintain balance
4. A person who does not have an orthopedic problem such as a fracture of the lower extremities within six months

Exclusion criteria

1. Those who have difficulty understanding the gait analysis program or difficulty expressing symptoms
2. A person deemed unfit for this study by a rehabilitation specialist due to other conditions
3. A person who is unable to apply this walking analysis program due to serious cardiovascular diseases

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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51 participants in 1 patient group

Gait group

Experimental group

Description:

1. Those aged 55 years or older 2. Those who can walk independently for at least 1 minute 3. Those who are not taking medications that affect the ability to maintain balance 4. Those who have not had any orthopedic problems such as lower limb fractures within the past 6 months

Treatment:

Device: Walking analysis sensor