NCT03935867

New York University Falls Prevention Program

Withdrawn NA Last updated 13 April 2022

What this trial tests

NA trial testing C-PROFET in Falls Related Risk Factors in the Elderly. Withdrawn.

Timeline

29 July 2016

Primary endpoint
31 July 2024

31 July 2024

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	New York University
Phase	NA
Status	Withdrawn
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	na
Design	single group
Masking	none
Primary purpose	prevention
Start date	29 July 2016
Primary completion	31 July 2024
Estimated completion	31 July 2024
Sites	1 location across United States

Drugs / interventions tested

• C-PROFET

Conditions studied

• Falls Related Risk Factors in the Elderly — all drugs for Falls Related Risk Factors in the Elderly →

Sponsor

New York University

Who can join

65 and older, any sex, with Falls Related Risk Factors in the Elderly. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Limited health services research and evidence-based programming has been focused on elderly fall prevention, despite high fall-related morbidity and mortality. Among NY's elderly population, falls account for nearly half of all older adults' injury-related deaths and are the 4th leading cause of hospitalizations. As fall risk increases with age, the magnitude of this health issue will continue to increase. Scientific evidence shows that prevention efforts significantly reduce the frequency and severity of falls. Research also suggests that multi-component intervention programs, such as Prevention Of Falls in the Elderly Trial, "PROFET", are successful because benefits are derived from small improvements across several risk categories.

The investigators propose expanding the reach of fall prevention efforts to at-risk and underserved populations of community-dwelling, older adults by delivering a home-based program -- "C-PROFET", an adaptation of Prevention Of Falls in the Elderly Trial (PROFET), an evidence-based, multi-factorial, fall prevention program. Investigators will test two hypotheses: (1) Oral health care programs and services can be a portal for identifying underserved community dwelling elders at risk for falls who can benefit from a fall prevention program; and (2) Provision of fall prevention efforts to an at-risk clinical population before these patients experience a serious fall-related injury will reduce fall-risk, and potentially decrease fall-related morbidity, mortality, and healthcare costs.

This initiative is to lay the necessary groundwork for larger implementation efforts that will advance efforts to reduce fall risk in vulnerable, community-dwelling older adults. The investigators propose to deliver "C-PROFET" to vulnerable, older adults identified through dental clinics and community oral health outreach services. The overall objectives are to improve patient-centered health outcomes, demonstrate feasibility of a multicomponent intervention to reduce/prevent fall-related morbidity and mortality in an at-risk, community-dwelling, clinical population, and disseminate this falls prevention program to community partner organizations to broadly translate these findings into clinical practice.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial.