OUTDOOR

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Outdoor Mobility After Hip Fracture: A Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial

• IRAS ID

  329085

• Contact name

  Emma Godfrey

• Contact email

  emma.l.godfrey@kcl.ac.uk

• Sponsor organisation

  King's College London

• Duration of Study in the UK

  1 years, 1 months, 22 days

• Research summary

  Why are we doing this study?

  Only one in four people can go outdoors four months after breaking their hip. Helping people get back to going outdoors could lower their chances of new illness, loneliness, or needing more support from friends and family. This NIHR funded study wants to see if the NHS can better support people who break their hip to get back to going outdoors.

  What will we do?

  At four hospitals, we will invite 60 older people who broke their hip to take part. All 60 will get usual care. Half, selected by chance, will get extra care including:

  1. A plan to help each of them get back to things they like to do outdoors on foot or with transport. A therapist will help them to practice going out and talk about the worry some have about falling again. Therapists will guide people to ask family and friends to help them practice going out.
  2. Support to find community groups near their home to help them continue to go outdoors once therapist visits are over.
  3. A video where other people talk about getting better after a broken hip.
  
  The extra care will continue until the person is back doing what they like outdoors, six visits are completed, or when 12 weeks have passed.
  
  We will collect information from people taking part, over the phone at the beginning, middle, and end of the study and again six months later.

  What will be next?

  If this small study shows we can give this extra care in the NHS, and it may help patients, then we plan to do a larger study. The larger study will see if this extra care works to help older people get back to what they like to do outdoors and feel happier.

• REC name

  East of England - Essex Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  23/EE/0246

• Date of REC Opinion

  30 Nov 2023

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion