Does dual task training improve walking performance of older adults with concern of falling?
Organizational Data
- DRKS-ID:
- DRKS00012382
- Recruitment Status:
- Recruiting complete, study complete
- Date of registration in DRKS:
- 2017-05-11
- Last update in DRKS:
- 2017-05-11
- Registration type:
- Retrospective
Acronym/abbreviation of the study
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URL of the study
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Brief summary in lay language
Elderly with concern of falling show altered gait performance. This study is aiming to investigate whether gait performance and cognitive performance during walking can be improved in healthy participants, aged 70 years or older, with a dual task training program. Dual task training is defined as a training methods with two simultaneous tasks, usually one physical task such as walking and one cognitive task. The training will be compared to a non-training control group.
Brief summary in scientific language
Background: Older adults with concerns of falling show decrements of gait stability under single (ST) and dual task (DT) conditions. Objective: To compare the effects of a DT training integrating task managing strategies for independent living older adults with and without concern about falling to a non-training control group on walking performance under ST and DT conditions. Design: Randomized controlled trial with group-based interventions (DT-managing balance training) compared to a control group. Setting: Group-based. Subjects: Ninety-five independent living older adults (71.5 ± 5.2 years). Methods: A progressive DT training (12 sessions; 60 min each; 12 weeks) including task-managing strategies was compared to a non-training control group. ST and DT walking (visual verbal Stroop task) were measured on a treadmill. Gait parameters (step length, step width, and gait line) and cognitive performance while walking were compared with a 2x2x2 Repeated Measures Analyses of Variance.
Health condition or problem studied
- Free text:
- Healthy elderly
- Healthy volunteers:
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Interventions, Observational Groups
- Arm 1:
- Progressive DT training (12 sessions; 60 min each; 12 weeks)
- Arm 2:
- Control group (no training)
Endpoints
- Primary outcome:
- Gait parameters (step length, step width, and gait line) assessed on a treadmill prior to the initial intervention and immediately after the final intervention.
- Secondary outcome:
- cognitive performance during gait using the STROBE test
Study Design
- Purpose:
- Treatment
- Allocation:
- Randomized controlled study
- Control:
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- Control group receives no treatment
- Phase:
- N/A
- Study type:
- Interventional
- Mechanism of allocation concealment:
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- Blinding:
- Yes
- Assignment:
- Parallel
- Sequence generation:
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- Who is blinded:
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- Assessor
Recruitment
- Recruitment Status:
- Recruiting complete, study complete
- Reason if recruiting stopped or withdrawn:
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Recruitment Locations
- Recruitment countries:
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- Germany
- Number of study centers:
- Monocenter study
- Recruitment location(s):
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- University medical center Institut für Psychologie und Bewegungswissenschaften Hamburg
Recruitment period and number of participants
- Planned study start date:
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- Actual study start date:
- 2015-04-01
- Planned study completion date:
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- Actual Study Completion Date:
- 2016-07-15
- Target Sample Size:
- 76
- Final Sample Size:
- 95
Inclusion Criteria
- Sex:
- All
- Minimum Age:
- 65 Years
- Maximum Age:
- 80 Years
- Additional Inclusion Criteria:
- independent-living; age 65-80 years, able to walk without a walking aid and attend the group training
Exclusion Criteria
acute or chronical diseases with a documented influence on balance control (e.g. Parkinson’s Disease; Diabetes Mellitus); cognitive impairment (MMSE of less than 25); or participation in other exercise programs that could potentially confound the primary outcome
Addresses
Primary Sponsor
- Address:
- University of Hamburg, Faculty of Psychology and Movement Sciences, Department of Health SciencesProf Bettina WollesenMollerstr. 220148 HamburgGermany
- Telephone:
- +49 40 42838-5682
- Fax:
- +49 40 42838-6268
- Contact per E-Mail:
- Contact per E-Mail
- URL:
- https://www.bw.uni-hamburg.de
- Investigator Sponsored/Initiated Trial (IST/IIT):
- Yes
Contact for Scientific Queries
- Address:
- University of Hamburg, Faculty of Psychology and Movement Sciences, Department of Health SciencesProf Bettina WollesenMollerstr. 220148 HamburgGermany
- Telephone:
- +49 40 42838-5682
- Fax:
- +49 40 42838-6268
- Contact per E-Mail:
- Contact per E-Mail
- URL:
- https://www.bw.uni-hamburg.de
Contact for Public Queries
- Address:
- University of Hamburg, Faculty of Psychology and Movement Sciences, Department of Health SciencesProf Bettina WollesenMollerstr. 220148 HamburgGermany
- Telephone:
- +49 40 42838-5682
- Fax:
- +49 40 42838-6268
- Contact per E-Mail:
- Contact per E-Mail
- URL:
- https://www.bw.uni-hamburg.de
Principal Investigator
- Address:
- University of Hamburg, Faculty of Psychology and Movement Sciences, Department of Health SciencesProf Bettina WollesenMollerstr. 220148 HamburgGermany
- Telephone:
- +49 40 42838-5682
- Fax:
- +49 40 42838-6268
- Contact per E-Mail:
- Contact per E-Mail
- URL:
- https://www.bw.uni-hamburg.de
Sources of Monetary or Material Support
Institutional budget, no external funding (budget of sponsor/PI)
- Address:
- University of Hamburg, Faculty of Psychology and Movement Sciences, Department of Health SciencesMollerstr. 220148 HamburgGermany
- Telephone:
- +49 40 42838-5682
- Fax:
- +49 40 42838-6268
- Contact per E-Mail:
- Contact per E-Mail
- URL:
- https://www.bw.uni-hamburg.de
Ethics Committee
Address Ethics Committee
- Address:
- Ethik-Kommission der Ärztekammer HamburgWeidestraße 122 b22083 HamburgGermany
- Telephone:
- +49-40-2022990
- Fax:
- +40-40-202299410
- Contact per E-Mail:
- Contact per E-Mail
- URL:
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Vote of leading Ethics Committee
- Vote of leading Ethics Committee
- Date of ethics committee application:
- 2013-01-15
- Ethics committee number:
- PV4376
- Vote of the Ethics Committee:
- Approved
- Date of the vote:
- 2013-07-03
Further identification numbers
- Other primary registry ID:
- No Entry
- EudraCT Number:
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IPD - Individual Participant Data
- Do you plan to make participant-related data (IPD) available to other researchers in an anonymized form?:
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- IPD Sharing Plan:
- No Entry
Study protocol and other study documents
- Study protocols:
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- Study abstract:
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- Other study documents:
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- Background literature:
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- Related DRKS studies:
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Publication of study results
- Planned publication:
- No Entry
- Publikationen/Studienergebnisse:
- Results
- Date of first publication of study results:
- No Entry
- DRKS entry published for the first time with results:
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Basic reporting
- Basic Reporting / Results tables:
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- Brief summary of results:
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