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Effectiveness of the Implementation of a Standardized Care Plan to Improve Fear of Falling and Incidence of Falls. FEARFALL_CARE Study
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Health education workshop for Falls and 2 related conditions. Completed, enrolled 163 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
The objective of this clinical trial is to evaluate the effectiveness of the implementation of a standardized care plan to reduce the fear of falling in people over 65 years of age with fear of falling who live in the community. The main questions it aims to answer are: * Is it possible to reduce the fear of falling in patients over 65 years of age through an educational intervention in primary care? * Is it possible to reduce falls in patients older than 65 years through an educational intervention in primary care? Half of the participants will receive an educational intervention consisting of 6 two-hour sessions at the Health Center. The comparison group will follow the usual clinical practice recommended by the Primary Care Assistance Management of the Community of Madrid. It is intended to observe if there are differences in the fear of falling and falls in both groups.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
The intervention will consist of 5 initial sessions, plus a reinforcement session at 6 months. The sessions will last 2 hours and will preferably be distributed one day a week. The objective of the intervention is to reduce the fear of falling and falls in people over 65 years of age who live in the community. To this end, nursing interventions will be included to improve the knowledge, skills and attitudes of the participants regarding the improvement of their functional capacity, the prevention of falls and their preventive measures, as well as the improvement in the management of anxiety and coping with the fear of falling and falls. The activities carried out during the intervention have been extracted from standardized nursing interventions through the Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC). The following interventions and activities will be addressed: 1665, 5612, 6490, 6486, 4700, 5820 and 5230.