Breaks From Sedentary Behavior With Dual Tasks in Elderly

University of Nove de Julho

Status: Completed

Conditions: Aging

Treatments: Other: Break of sedentary behavior with walking; Other: Break of sedentary behavior with dual task

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06068374

Break_Elderly

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this project will be to compare the acute effects of breaks from sedentary behavior using dual-tasking on cerebral blood flow, vascular function, cognitive functions and blood pressure in elderly people. Participants will perform, in random order, three experimental sessions (control, break with dual-task and standard break ([walk]). All sessions will have a period of 4 hours in sedentary behavior. In the standard break session and in the break session with dual-task participants will take walking and dual-task breaks every 30 minutes, and in the control session they will remain seated without breaks. Before and after this period, cerebral blood flow, vascular function, cognitive functions and blood pressure will be assessed.

Enrollment: 27 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60 to 90 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• aged 60 years or over
• be physically independent based on the Katz Test
• have no history of heart attack
• not having suffered a stroke
• not have heart failure
• do not have joint problems that prevent them from carrying out experimental sessions
• do not have a history of neurodegenerative diseases
• obtain ≥ 26 points in the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)
• are not involved in the practice of regular, systematic physical activity more than once a week over the last six months prior to the start of the study
• not be smokers and morbidly obese.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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27 participants in 3 patient groups

Break dual task

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects will remain seated for three hours; however, every 30 minutes the subjects will be instructed to stand and take short walks with low intensity and perform a cognitive task

Treatment:

Other: Break of sedentary behavior with dual task

Standard break

Active Comparator group

Description:

Subjects will remain seated for three hours, however, every 30 minutes the subjects will be instructed to stand and take short walks at low intensity for two minutes,

Treatment:

Other: Break of sedentary behavior with walking

Control session

No Intervention group

Description:

Subjects will remain seated for three hours