Fall accidents
Conditions
Interventions
Experimental study of the Randomized Clinical Trial type that will be developed in a public reference institution located in the northern region of Ceará. The sample will initially consist of 150 pati
sociodemographic profile
Morse Fall Scale
Katz Index
Nursing Diagnosis “Risk for Falls” and evaluation of nursing outcomes knowledge and behavior on fall prevention. The instruments will be reapplied 24 hours after the intervention, on the third and sev
J01.897.280
Sponsors
Universidade Federal do Ceará
Universidade Federal do Ceará
Eligibility
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Being 18 years of age or older; having been admitted to the institution for more than 12 hours; being literate; having a smartphone and/or another mobile device, such as a tablet; obtaining minimum scores in the Mini Mental State Examination, with the cut-off points: 21 for those with between one and three years of schooling, 24 for people with between four and seven years of formal education, and 26 for people with more than eight years of schooling
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Patients with scheduled discharge; those with incapacitating mental illness; dementia; or those who present hemodynamic instability at the time of recruitment will be excluded; which will be assessed by assessing the patients' vital signs, already carried out by professionals in the study sectors
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The use of the application is expected to improve the average scores of knowledge and behavior regarding fall prevention among patients | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Improvement in fall risk classification using the Morse fall scale is expected;A reduction in the number of notifications of service outages is expected during data collection | — |
Countries
Brazil
Contacts
Public ContactMaria Aline Ximenes
Universidade Federal do Ceará
Outcome results
None listed