The STRIDE (Strategies to Increase confidence, InDependence and Energy) study: Cognitive behavioural therapy-based intervention to reduce fear of falling in older fallers living in the community - study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Trials

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Parry, Steve W ^a   Deary, Vincent ^b   Finch, Tracy ^a   Bamford, Claire ^a   Sabin, Neil ^c   McMeekin, Peter ^a   O'Brien, John ^d   Caldwell, Alma ^e   Steen, Nick ^a   Whitney, Susan L ^f   Macdonald, Claire ^a   McColl, Elaine ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e AGE UK   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive behavioural therapy; Community; Complex intervention; Elders; Falls; Fear of falling; Normalization process theory; Randomised controlled trial

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMMUNITY LIVING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; EVALUATION STUDY; FALLING; FALLS EFFICACY SCALE INTERNATIONAL; FEAR; FEAR OF FALLING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMALIZATION PROCESS THEORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RATING SCALE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SHORT PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE BATTERY; SOCIAL DISCONNECTEDNESS AND PERCEIVED ISOLATION SCALE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION QUALITY OF LIFE QUESTIONNAIRE; AGED; AGING; ANXIETY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE COST; METHODOLOGY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF CONCEPT; VERY ELDERLY;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ANXIETY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FEAR; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 84902546354     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-15-210     Document Type: Article

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