Preventing winter falls: a randomised controlled trial of a novel intervention.

Lianne Parkin; Sheila M. Williams; Patricia Joyner Priest

Corpus ID: 4829551

Preventing winter falls: a randomised controlled trial of a novel intervention.

@article{Parkin2009PreventingWF,
  title={Preventing winter falls: a randomised controlled trial of a novel intervention.},
  author={Lianne Parkin and Sheila M. Williams and Patricia Joyner Priest},
  journal={The New Zealand medical journal},
  year={2009},
  volume={122 1298},
  pages={
          31-8
        }
}

Lianne Parkin, Sheila M. Williams, Patricia Joyner Priest

Published 2009

Medicine

The New Zealand medical journal

AIM To investigate the hypothesis that wearing socks over shoes improves traction on icy footpaths. METHODS Randomised controlled trial involving 30 pedestrians (median age 21 years, range 18-70) travelling in a downhill direction on icy public footpaths at two sites in Dunedin, New Zealand. INTERVENTION different coloured socks applied over normal footwear or usual practice (unadulterated footwear). PRIMARY OUTCOME difference in mean self-reported slipperiness on a 5-point scale… CONTINUE READING

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