Developing a Daily-use Fall Risk Assessment Device in Clinical Setting
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: iBalance.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Falls, Balance Assessment. Basic parameters: 60 years — 100 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Hong Kong
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Development and Applications of Daily-use Fall Risk Assessment Device to Prevent Elderly People from Falling
Overview
Study Objectives Objective 1: Compare the fall risk assessment results between balance sensors, traditional tests, and clinical diagnoses. Objective 2: Improve the feasibility of using sensors to assess fall risk among older patients in the hospital. The investigators select Hong Kong as the region for the experiment. Specifically, the community clinics and daytime hospitals are the actual onsite locations for experimenting. The specific venues of these locations need an electrical power supply and a flat ground for conducting the device test. Patients will be recruited for the development and testing of a device for fall risk assessment, study participants will be involved in balancing assessments, and questionnaire surveys, their medical records will be accessed. And during these tests and questionnaire surveys, the investigators will take photos, videos, and or audio recordings.
Interventions
- Device iBalance
Participants will engage in the device test, clinical assessment tests. The whole test will last twelve months, and the outcome will be assessed pre- and post-implementation for comparison and validation. The intervention results are used to compared with traditional tests and clinical diagnosis, to identify whether the sensor provides a higher accuracy in predicting fall risk, and to explore the feasibility of the sensor in clinical scenarios.
Primary outcome measures
- Precision assessment of falling risk prediction [Time frame: six months]
Secondary outcome measures (1)
- Feasibility of fall risk assessment by using balance sensor in clinical settings [Time frame: six months]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Older adults aged 60 years and above;
- Understand Cantonese or Mandarin or English;
- Clinical patients in the clinics.
Exclusion criteria
- Unable to give written informed consent (e.g., illiterate or with cognitive impairment);
- Inability to stand for 30 seconds without any assistance.
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Allocation
- N/A
- Model
- Single group
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Device feasibility
Study locations
Hong Kong · 1 center
- The University of Hong Kong — Hong Kong
Publications
- Liu H, Cai L, Ma X, Chen J, Lam CLK, Yuen JKY, Chan CP, Sze HH, Wang HL, Xi N, Lou VW. Evaluation of a Frustrated Total Internal Reflection (FTIR) based balance sensor for objective fall risk assessment in older adults: a study protocol. BMC Geriatr. 2026 Mar 2;26(1):466. doi: 10.1186/s12877-026-07253-9. PMID 41772485
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06767163 · UW 24-540