Influence exercise on falls

• Register: IRCT
• Last refreshed on: 22 February 2018
• Main ID: IRCT2016120431234N1
• Date of registration: 2017-01-28
• Prospective Registration: No
• Primary sponsor: Vice chancellor for research,Bojnourd University of Medical Sciences
• Public title: Influence exercise on falls
• Scientific title: Influence of Tai Chi exercise on the risk of fall and fear of falls among the elderly
• Date of first enrolment: 2016-04-02
• Target sample size: 60
• Recruitment status: Complete
• URL: http://en.irct.ir/trial/24616
• Study type: interventional
• Study design: Randomization: Randomized, Blinding: Triple blinded, Placebo: Not used, Assignment: Parallel, Purpose: Prevention, Other design features: Both groups were randomly divided into method permutation blocks and a control group without the knowledge of the exercise group continued with their normal lives.
• Phase: 4

Countries of recruitment

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Contacts

• Name: Hamed Mortazavi
• Affiliation: Faculty of Nursing

• Name: Mohammad Reza Yousefi
• Affiliation: Bojnourd University of Medical Sciences

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Inclusion criteria: age over 60 years, living in society, lack of practicing Tai Chi in the past 12 months, have mental alertness, lack of medical contraindications for exercise, lack of mental disorders such as dementia early damage, Parkinson's, and the ability to perform actions sports are.
exclusion criteria: serious or emergency situation threatening disease during exercise, inability to complete the exercise program, a fundamental change in drug regimen or older and participation in Tai chi is at least 20 sessions.
Exclusion criteria:

Age minimum: 60 years
Age maximum: 79 years
Gender: Both

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Condition 1: Fall. Condition 2: Fear of Fall.
Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling
Phobic anxiety disorder, unspecified

Phobic anxiety disorder, unspecified

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Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling

Intervention(s)

Prevention

Lifestyle

Control group: Activities of daily living
The control group without the knowledge of Tai Chi to their normal lives and did not do any specific exercise.

Intervention 1: Intervention group: Tai Chi exercise
A type of ancient Chinese exercise that incorporates four light and Yang style for 10 weeks and three sessions per week, each session an hour (A total of 30 one-hour sessions) were trained in the gym under the supervision of coach. Intervention 2: Control group: Activities of daily living
The control group without the knowledge of Tai Chi to their normal lives and did not do any specific exercise.

Intervention group: Tai Chi exercise
A type of ancient Chinese exercise that incorporates four light and Yang style for 10 weeks and three sessions per week, each session an hour (A total of 30 one-hour sessions) were trained in the gym under the supervision of coach.

Primary Outcome(s)

Fall Risk. Timepoint: Before the intervention, the fourth week after the intervention, eight weeks after intervention and the end of the tenth week. Method of measurement: Berg and Biodex Balance.

Fear of fall. Timepoint: First, the end of the fourth week, the end of the eighth week of the study. Method of measurement: Fes-I.

Secondary ID(s)

REC.1394.86

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Vice chancellor for research,Bojnourd University of Medical Sciences

Ethics review

Status: Approved
Approval date:
Contact:

Ethics committee of Bojnourd University of Medical Sciences