Effectiveness of Fewer Falls, an online group-based self-management fall prevention programme for people with multiple sclerosis: protocol of a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Fewer Falls is a manualised self-management fall prevention programme co-developed for and with ambulatory and non-ambulatory people with multiple sclerosis (PwMS). Findings from a feasibility study indicate the necessity of a full-scale randomised controlled trial (RCT).

Methods and analysis

A parallel-group RCT with a mixed methods process evaluation as well as a cost-effectiveness evaluation will be conducted. We aim to recruit 240 PwMS, who will be stratified by ambulation level and randomised 1:1 in blocks of eight to intervention or control. The group-based self-management fall prevention intervention involves eight 2-hour online synchronous sessions (approximately eight participants/group) facilitated by a licensed healthcare professional and home

SUBMITTER: Tuvemo Johnson S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11749722 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature