Recruiting

Fall Prevention Program

Sponsor:

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Code:

NCT03705364

Conditions

Multiple Sclerosis

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Fall Management program

Study Details

Brief summary:

A research study to examine the effectiveness of a fall management program to prevent falls and develop fall recovery strategies for wheeled mobility device users living with Multiple Sclerosis.

Conditions

Multiple Sclerosis

Study ID

NCT03705364

Start date

Mar 1, 2018

Status verified date

Apr, 2019

Completion date

Jan 1, 2020

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Jan 1, 2020

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis
2. >18 years old
3. Main form of mobility is via a wheeled mobility device (Patient Determined Disease Steps Level 7)
4. Self reported ability to transfer with moderate assistance or less
5. Self-reported fall history (at least 1 fall/12 months)

Exclusion Criteria:

1. MS exacerbation in the past 30 days
2. Received a score of 10 or above to the Short Blessed Test (attached)
3. Inability to sit upright for at least 1 hour.

Study Design

Enrollment

120 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Prevention

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

no intervention: Wait List Control Group

Wait list control group

experimental: Fall Management program

Intervention arm

Interventions

Fall Management program

Comprehensive fall management program that develops strategies for non-ambulatory wheelchair users living with MS to develpo strategies to recover from a fall.

Primary outcome measure

  • Reduction in fall incidence [ Time Frame: 44 weeks ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Locations

The Shepherd Center

Recruiting

Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30309

Contacts

UIC

Recruiting

Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60607

Contacts

UIUC

Recruiting

Urbana, Illinois, United States, 61801

Contacts

Principal Investigator:

Laura A Rice, PhD,MPT,ATP

More Information

Sponsor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Last update posted

Apr 4, 2019

Last verified

Apr, 2019

Keywords

  • wheelchair
  • non-ambulatory

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-09. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on 2019-04-04.