Clinical trials: Falling Injury
Other Specified Personal Exposures and History Presenting Hazards to Health, Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Safe Play Areas for Ross County Kids Project
Specific Aim 1 - In collaboration with partners in Ross County, renovate and develop playgrounds in Chillicothe. Specific Aim 2 - In collaboration with partners in Ross County, promote safe play and play areas for children on…
- Conditions
- Other Specified Personal Exposures and History Presenting Hazards to Health, Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Fall Involving Playground Equipment, Occurrence on Farm
- Trial name
- SPARK (NCT01291225)
- Testing
- Playground renovation and development, Educational campaign
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 311 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Nationwide Children's Hospital
Aging, Accidental Fall
Reducing CNS-Active Medications to Prevent Falls and Injuries in Older Adults
The overall objective of STOP-FALLS is to test whether a patient-centered deprescribing intervention that focuses on CNS-active medications reduces medically treated falls among older adults.
- Trial name
- STOP-FALLS (NCT05689554)
- Testing
- STOP Falls Educational Intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 2,367 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Washington
Delirium, Fall Injury
Care.Coach Avatars for Improvement of Outcomes in Hospitalized Elders, Including Mitigation of Falls and Delirium: a Multi-Site Clinical Study
Through NINR project 1R44NR017842-01 which preceded the present study, the investigators enhanced the care.coach avatar platform to incorporate a robust suite of evidence-based protocols based on the Hospital Elder Life Program…
- Trial name
- AvatarHELP (NCT03832192)
- Testing
- care.coach Avatar (HELP-Protocolized)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 301 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Victor Wang
Falls, Fall Injury
Electronic Strategies for Tailored Exercise to Prevent FallS
The objectives of this proposal are to evaluate the eSTEPS CDS (eSTEPS) in a cluster randomized controlled trial. The intervention includes the following: 1) A machine learning-based fall injury risk screening algorithm to…
- Conditions
- Falls, Fall Injury, Exercise Self-Efficacy, Falls Self-Efficacy
- Trial name
- eSTEPS (NCT04993781)
- Testing
- eSTEPS CDS
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 11,945 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
Fall Related Injury, Social Isolation
KOSO (Keep On Stepping On)/ Stepping Online
The overall purpose of this multi-phase study is to develop (Phase 1) and test potential effectiveness and feasibility of Keep On Stepping On (KOSO)/Stepping Online, an online falls prevention maintenance program for Stepping On…
- Trial name
- NCT02774889
- Testing
- Stepping Online
- Volunteers
- 45 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Wisconsin, Madison
Myocardial Infarction, Stroke
Women's Health Initiative Strong and Healthy Study
The WHISH trial applies state-of-the science behavioral principles and currently available technologies to deliver a physical activity intervention without face-to-face contact to ~25,000 older U.S. women expected to consent.
- Conditions
- Myocardial Infarction, Stroke, Cardiovascular Mortality, Hip Fractures
- Trial name
- WHISH (NCT02425345)
- Testing
- Physical Activity
- Volunteers
- 49,331 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Fractures, Bone, Serious Fall-related Injuries
Working to Increase Stability Through Exercise
The investigators propose a 36-month multi-center randomized effectiveness trial to compare the impact of an Enhanced Usual Care (Control) intervention, with Exercise Coaching (Exercise), on Serious Fall-Related Injuries (SFI) in…
- Trial name
- WISE (NCT02714257)
- Testing
- Enhanced Usual Care plus Exercise Coaching
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 1,139 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Muscle Loss, Fractures
Musculoskeletal Effects of Bicarbonate
With aging, men and women develop a mild and progressive metabolic acidosis. This occurs as a result of declining renal function and ingestion of acid-producing diets.
- Conditions
- Muscle Loss, Fractures, Osteoporosis, Age Related, Fall Injury
- Trial name
- NCT01475214
- Testing
- potassium bicarbonate
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 244 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Tufts University
Drug Resistant Epilepsy, Drop Seizures
Novel Helmet Design in Patients With Seizures
This is a two-part study that aims to determine the reliability and safety of the use of the Hövding inflatable helmet in seizures, as evidenced by the deployment of the helmet during seizures, and qualitative patient reporting.
- Conditions
- Drug Resistant Epilepsy, Drop Seizures, Generalized Tonic Clonic Seizure, Complex Partial Seizure
- Trial name
- NCT03443388
- Testing
- Hövding inflatable helmet
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 9 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Michael A. Gelfand, MD, PhD