{
  "abstract": "Introduction Falls are a critical problem for older people, including those from ethnically diverse communities, who are under-represented in research. The aim of this pilot trial is to evaluate (1) the implementability of a co-designed intervention developed to support the sustained uptake of tailored exercise to reduce falls ( MOVE Together: Reduce Falls) and (2) the feasibility of conducting a randomised controlled trial (RCT) in older people from Italian, Arabic, Cantonese or Mandarin-speaking communities.Methods and analysis Investigator and assessor-blinded pilot two-arm parallel RCT. 60 older people at risk of falls from Italian, Arabic, Cantonese or Mandarin speaking communities will be recruited, with the option to enrol on their own or with another participant (dyad). Participants or dyads will be randomly assigned to the experimental or control arm. The experimental arm will receive MOVE Together: Reduce Falls, which provides up to 12 sessions with a physiotherapist over 12 months and supports participants to engage in individualised exercises. Both arms will receive educational resources in the participant’s preferred language. The primary outcome is implementability of the co-designed intervention, MOVE Together: Reduce Falls; operationalised as fidelity (>70% of intended sessions delivered), feasibility (> 95% of sessions delivered with no serious adverse events related or likely related to the intervention) and acceptability (>50% acceptability score). The secondary outcome is feasibility of the RCT protocol, which will be evaluated quantitatively (eg, recruitment and retention rates, completion of clinical outcome data including prospective collection of falls data for 12 months via falls calendars) and qualitatively (eg, barriers and enablers to data collection).Ethics and dissemination Ethical approval has been granted for this study (HREC/106010/MH-2024). Study findings will be published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at relevant conferences and community forums.Trial registration number ACTRN12624000658516.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Physiotherapy, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia",
        "Physiotherapy, Western Health, Footscray, Victoria, Australia",
        "The Australian Institute of Musculoskeletal Sciences, St Albans, Victoria, Australia"
      ],
      "name": "Catherine M Said"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Physiotherapy, Western Health, Footscray, Victoria, Australia"
      ],
      "name": "Emily R Ramage"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Physiotherapy, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia",
        "Physiotherapy, Western Health, Footscray, Victoria, Australia"
      ],
      "name": "Hannah Sharma"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "National Ageing Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia"
      ],
      "name": "Frances Batchelor"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Subacute, Physiotherapy Department, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia"
      ],
      "name": "Erin Bicknell"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Language Services, Western Health, Footscray, Victoria, Australia"
      ],
      "name": "Lyn Bongiovanni"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia"
      ],
      "name": "Bianca Brijnath"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Physiotherapy, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia"
      ],
      "name": "Priyanka Cahill"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia"
      ],
      "name": "Michele Callisaya"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Physiotherapy, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia",
        "The Australian Institute of Musculoskeletal Sciences, St Albans, Victoria, Australia"
      ],
      "name": "Sherisse Celestino"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "PICAC Alliance, Multicultural Aged Care South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia",
        "Caring Futures Institute, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia"
      ],
      "name": "Agnieszka Chudecka"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Health Economics Group, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia"
      ],
      "name": "Lidia Engel"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Medicine and Aged Care, The Royal Melbourne Hospital City Campus, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia",
        "The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia"
      ],
      "name": "Wen Kwang Lim"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Physiotherapy, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia",
        "Allied Health, Alfred Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia"
      ],
      "name": "Cassie E McDonald"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, Sydney Local Health District, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia",
        "School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia"
      ],
      "name": "Marina Pinheiro"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, Sydney Local Health District, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia",
        "School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia"
      ],
      "name": "Catherine Sherrington"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Medicine, The University of Melbourne Melbourne Medical School, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia"
      ],
      "name": "Sara Vogrin"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Medicine and Aged Care, The Royal Melbourne Hospital City Campus, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia",
        "The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia"
      ],
      "name": "Jesse Zanker"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Consumer Partner, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia"
      ],
      "name": "Cheng Zheng"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Melbourne School of Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne Faculty of Medicine Dentistry and Health Sciences, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia"
      ],
      "name": "Marlena Klaic"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [],
      "name": "MOVE Together: Reduce Falls Collaboration"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Implementability of a co-designed programme to increase tailored exercise to reduce falls in older people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities: protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial",
  "uid": "bb7477b6-f692-59bb-8274-621094b6c544"
}