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NCT Number: NCT02700672

Influence of Cognition and Gait on Falls

The study analyses if cognition and gait speed can predict falls in a community-dwelling people and ambulant long term care residents

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Key information

Conditions

Accidental Falls

Age range

60 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

About this study

Falls are some of the most common events among elderly people. The odds of recurrent falls increase every year, which can cause impairment in basic activities of daily living, social isolation, fear of falling again and death. The aim of the present study is to analyze the role of cognition and gait speed as predictors to falls in institutionalized and non-institutionalized elderly people.

Methods:Twenty-five individuals living in a long-term care facility and 25 non-institutionalized individuals participated in the study. A questionnaire about their history of falls, tests to evaluate cognition (global and executive function) and a pedometer with an accelerometer to measure kinematic variables were applied.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • People who could walk with or without ambulation devices
  • Mini-Mental State Examination score according to schooling

Exclusion criteria

  • Terminal illnesses
  • Bedridden
  • Unable to see or hear
  • Use of benzodiazepines

Treatment and study plan

observational study

Other

Observational study: kinematic variables, falls and executive function were analyzed

Primary outcomes

  1. Cognitive predictor of falls assessed with the Mini-Mental State Examination

    Time frame: falls on past 12 months

    To measure cognitive predictor will be used Mini-Mental State Examination

Secondary outcomes

  1. Executive function predictor of falls assessed with the Wisconsin Card Sort Test

    Time frame: falls on past 12 months

    To measure executive function will be used Wisconsin Card Sort Test

  2. Gait speed predictor of falls assessed with an accelerometer

    Time frame: falls on past 12 months

    To measure gait speed will be used an accelerometer

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Federal University of São Paulo

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Predicting Falls Among Institutionalized and Non-institutionalized Older Adults: The Role of Cognition and Gait Speed

Acronym: ICGF

Important dates

Study start
2013
Primary completion
2013
Study completion
2013
First posted
Mar 7, 2016
Registry last updated
Mar 7, 2016

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