A randomised trial to evaluate the effect of an education program on fall prevention knowledge and the prescription of exercises shown to prevent falls in older people.

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This study aims to determine if a specific, one-day education program delivered to allied health and exercise professionals in a workshop format and access to internet-based support materials, results in increased prescription of evidence-based exercises designed to prevent falls in older people. Secondary aims are to determine if the education program results in an increase in the proportion of exercise prescription strategies used in the past month that comply with evidence-based fall prevention guidelines and if fall prevention knowledge increases after three months. We hypothesise that the intervention group participants will prescribe evidence-based fall prevention exercise to a higher proportion of their older clients during the follow-up period than the control participants and that they will prescribe a higher number of evidence-based fall prevention exercises and will perform better on an assessment of fall prevention knowledge at three months follow-up compared with control participants.