NCT04108793

Effectiveness of Home-based Rehabilitation Program

Status unknown NA Last updated 30 September 2019

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Physiotherapy exercises in Fall in 224 participants. Status unknown.

Timeline

1 October 2019

Primary endpoint
31 March 2021

31 October 2021

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Aga Khan University
Phase	NA
Status	Status unknown
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	single
Primary purpose	prevention
Enrollment	224
Start date	1 October 2019
Primary completion	31 March 2021
Estimated completion	31 October 2021

Drugs / interventions tested

• Physiotherapy exercises

Conditions studied

• Fall — all drugs for Fall →

Sponsor

Aga Khan University

Who can join

Adults 60 to 80, any sex, with Fall. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

This study will be an open label, simple randomized controlled trial at a single hospital. The two arms will be equally allocated on a 1:1 ratio into intervention and control groups. The control arm will receive the usual standard postoperative rehabilitation after a bipolar hemiarthroplasty/ total hip arthroplasty which will include in hospital rehabilitation and a maximum of 5 visits postoperatively, arranged and funded by the patient as feasible. The intervention group will receive an extended home-based rehabilitation program twice a week continued for 3 months (12 weeks) after discharge funded by the study. The study will be conducted solely at Aga Khan University Hospital. The care providers involved with the study will include orthopaedic consultants, Family medicine physician, physiotherapist, and orthopaedic nurses. A total of 224 elderly patients aged 60 years and above undergoing hip fracture surgery will be evenly divided into intervention and control arms. The Primary outcome of the study is incidence of falls. Falls will be measured 3 monthly by research-assistant follow-up telephone calls for both the groups. Face to face interview which will be conducted in routine follow-up visits of all patients (both groups) will include assessment physical performance using Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB) tool.

Publications & conference data

2 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Interventions for improving mobility after hip fracture surgery in adults.
   Fairhall NJ, Dyer SM, Mak JC, Diong J, et al · · 2022 · cited 53× · PMID 36070134 · DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd001704.pub5
2. Effectiveness of home-based rehabilitation program in minimizing disability and secondary falls after a hip fracture: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial.
   Sadruddin Pidani A, Sabzwari S, Ahmad K, Mohammed A, et al · · 2020 · cited 2× · PMID 32695954 · DOI 10.1016/j.isjp.2020.06.002