Development and delivery of an exercise programme for falls prevention: the Prevention of Falls Injury Trial (PreFIT).

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This paper describes the development and implementation of an exercise intervention to prevent falls within The Prevention of Fall Injury Trial (PreFIT), which is a large multi-centred randomised controlled trial based in the UK National Health Service (NHS).

Design

Using the template for intervention description and replication (TIDieR) checklist, to describe the rationale and processes for treatment selection and delivery of the PreFIT exercise intervention.

Participants

Based on the results of a validated falls and balance survey, participants were eligible for the exercise intervention if they were at moderate or high risk of falling.

Interventions

Intervention development was informed using the current evidence base, published guidelines, and pre

SUBMITTER: Finnegan S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5840509 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature