Strategies to Reduce Injuries and Develop Confidence in Elders (STRIDE)
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02475850 |
Recruitment Status :
Completed
First Posted : June 19, 2015
Last Update Posted : March 24, 2020
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Accidental Falls Wounds and Injuries | Other: Evidence-based tailored fall prevention Other: Usual care | Phase 3 |

Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 5451 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | Double (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor) |
Primary Purpose: | Prevention |
Official Title: | Randomized Trial of a Multifactorial Fall Injury Prevention Strategy |
Actual Study Start Date : | August 2015 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | December 2019 |
Actual Study Completion Date : | January 2020 |
Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Fall prevention standard of care
An evidence-based patient-centered intervention that will combine elements of a multifactorial, risk factor-based, standardly-tailored fall prevention strategy developed at Yale, practice guidelines offered by the CDC's "STEADI" toolbox and the joint American Geriatrics Society/British Geriatrics Society guidelines, and ACOVE practice change approach
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Other: Evidence-based tailored fall prevention |
Control
Usual fall prevention care
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Other: Usual care |
- Adjudicated Serious Fall-Related Injuries [ Time Frame: 44 months ]time to first adjudicated serious fall-related injury
- All Self-reported Fall-Related Injuries [ Time Frame: 44 months ]time to first self-reported fall-related injuries (serious and non-serious)
- All Self-reported Falls [ Time Frame: 44 months ]time to self-reported falls
- Function, as measured by the Late Life Function and Disability Instrument [ Time Frame: 12 months, 24 months ]self-report computer-adaptive measure of function
- Disability, as measured by the Late Life Function and Disability Instrument [ Time Frame: 12 months, 24 months ]self-report computer-adaptive measure of disability
- Anxiety as measured by the Patient-reported Outcome Measure Information System (PROMIS) Anxiety Measure [ Time Frame: 12 months, 24 months ]self-report measure of anxiety
- Depression as measured by the PROMIS Depression Measure [ Time Frame: 12 months, 24 months ]self-report measure of depression
- Fear of falling as measured by the Falls Efficacy Scale [ Time Frame: 12 months, 24 months ]self-report measure of fear of falling

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 70 Years and older (Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- The patient is at least 70 years of age.
- The patient must answer 'yes' to one or more of the following questions:
- Have you fallen and hurt yourself in the past year?
- Have you fallen 2 or more times in the past year?
- Are you afraid that you might fall because of balance or walking problems?
Exclusion Criteria:
- The patient is enrolled in hospice.
- The patient resides in a nursing home.
- The patient is not capable of providing informed consent (or assent), and a proxy is not available.
- The patient does not speak English or Spanish

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT02475850
United States, California | |
Healthcare Partners | |
Torrance, California, United States | |
United States, Iowa | |
University of Iowa Health Alliance | |
Des Moines, Iowa, United States | |
United States, Maryland | |
Johns Hopkins Medicine | |
Baltimore, Maryland, United States | |
United States, Massachusetts | |
Partners Healthcare | |
Boston, Massachusetts, United States | |
Reliant Medical Group | |
Worcester, Massachusetts, United States | |
United States, Michigan | |
University of Michigan | |
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States | |
United States, Minnesota | |
Essentia Health | |
Duluth, Minnesota, United States | |
United States, New York | |
Mt Sinai Health System | |
New York, New York, United States | |
United States, Pennsylvania | |
University of Pittsburgh | |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States | |
United States, Texas | |
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston | |
Galveston, Texas, United States |
Principal Investigator: | Shalender Bhasin, MD | Brigham and Women's Hospital | |
Principal Investigator: | Thomas Gill, MD | Yale University | |
Principal Investigator: | Dave Reuben, MD | University of California, Los Angeles | |
Study Director: | Nancy Latham, PhD | Brigham and Women's Hosptial |
Responsible Party: | Nancy Latham, Study Director, Brigham and Women's Hospital |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT02475850 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
U01AG048270 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract ) 1U01AG048270-01 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract ) |
First Posted: | June 19, 2015 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | March 24, 2020 |
Last Verified: | March 2020 |
Wounds and Injuries |