Falls Prevention, Falls Risk
Conditions
Brief summary
This study investigates how differently-framed messages can affect people's attitude towards falls risk and prevention in older adults. This study considers the potentiality of adult children acting as change agents in influencing parents in falls prevention.
Detailed description
A randomized controlled trial (RCT) will be conducted to test the effectiveness of two messaging types (positively vs negatively framed) via two target audiences (older vs younger adults). The RCT evaluates the effectiveness of the differently-framed messages delivered to older and younger adults in affecting people's attitude toward falls risk and motivating them to learn about preventing falls. Also, the potential of adult children acting as change agents to positively influence parents in preventing falls is explored. Older and younger adults who are eligible to participate in this study are randomly given one message. For older adults, the objective is to study which message is more effective in affecting their attitude towards falls risk and motivating them to learn about preventing falls. For younger adults, the aim is to understand which message is more effective in motivating them to learn about preventing falls for their parents. Hypotheses: H1: The negatively framed message is more effective than the positively framed counterpart in motivating older adults to find out about preventing falls. However, this effect decreases as the socioeconomic status decreases. H2: The negatively framed message is more effective than the positively framed counterpart in motivating younger adults to find out about preventing falls.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALNo Message Given
Participants in this arm are not given any intervention.
BEHAVIORALPositive Message Given - Older Adults
Participants in this arm are given a positively framed message from an older adult's point of view.
BEHAVIORALNegative Message Given - Older Adults
Participants in this arm are given a negatively framed message from an older adult's point of view.
BEHAVIORALPositive Message Given - Younger Adults
Participants in this arm are given a positively framed message from an adult child's point of view.
BEHAVIORALNegative Message Given - Younger Adults
Participants in this arm are given a negatively framed message from an adult child's point of view.
Sponsors
National University of Singapore
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
SINGLE (Subject)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
30 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Singaporean or Permanent Residents (PRs) * Read/speak English, Mandarin, or Malay * Either age 60 years old and above, walk independently with or without assistive devices, have no self-reported/detected dementia or cognitive impairments or age between 30 and 59 years old and have either one of the parents age 60 years old and above who walk independently with or without assistive devices
Exclusion criteria
* Not Singaporean or PRs * Do not read/speak English, Chinese, and Malay * Age 29 years old and below * Cannot walk independently with and without assistive devices * Have self-reported/detected dementia or cognitive impairments
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| How much does the participant want to find out about preventing falls for himself/herself or his/her father/mother? | After being given a message during the survey, an average of 2 minutes | This is a scale variable ranging from 1 to 9, which is 1 if not at all and 9 if a lot |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Whether the participant or the participant's father/mother has fallen in the past 12 months | After being given a message during the survey, an average of 2 minutes | This is a categorical variable, which is Yes if the participant or the participant's father/mother has fallen in the past 12 months, No if not, and Do not know if the participant does not know whether his/her father/mother has fallen in the past 12 months |
| Whether the participant or the participant's father/mother is concerned about falling | After being given a message during the survey, an average of 2 minutes | This is a categorical variable, which is Very concerned if the participant or the participant's father/mother is very concerned about falling, Slightly concerned if s/he is slightly concerned about falling, Not concerned if s/he is not concerned about falling, and Do not know if the participant does not know whether his/her father/mother is concerned about falling |
| Whether the participant or the participant's father/mother feels like s/he is going to fall when standing or walking | After being given a message during the survey, an average of 2 minutes | This is a categorical variable, which is Always if the participant or the participant's father/mother always feels like s/he is going to fall when standing or walking, Sometimes if s/he sometimes feels like s/he is going to fall when standing or walking, Never if s/he never feels like s/he is going to fall when standing or walking, and Do not know if the participant does not know whether his/her father/mother feels like s/he is going to fall when standing or walking |
Countries
Singapore
Contacts
Primary ContactSu-Chin Hsu, PhD
Backup ContactLianjun Li, PhD
Outcome results
None listed