Community-based Physical Fitness Exercise on the Older Adults' Functional Fitness and Adherence to Physical Activity

Kaohsiung Medical University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Older Adult

Treatments

Behavioral: Autonomous group class

Behavioral: Structural exercise course

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05081505

KMUHIRB-E(II)-20190397

Details and patient eligibility

About

Maintaining adequate physical activity (PA) and regularly exercising are very important to promote the good physical and mental health of the elderly. According to the transtheoretical model (TTM) framework, previous research studies have formulated many strategies to promote exercise behaviors, such as incentive strategies, combines municipal resources and links up with the referral of primary care institutions, or including patients in the decision-making process about exercise choices to enable patients to have greater autonomy. In addition, in terms of the strategic aspects of achieving goals, competitive incentives are also an effective strategy. Therefore, this study aims to find out the effects of the community-based physical fitness exercise course, which is given according to TTM, on improving functional fitness and exercise persistence of the older adults.

Enrollment

30 patients

Sex

All

Ages

65 to 82 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

age between 65 to 90 years old
can stand up from a chair without armrests
can walk independently for 2 minutes without relying on any mechanical assistance
no medical issues according to the PAR-Q+ form assessment
can complete the Senior Fitness Test (SFT)

Exclusion criteria

diagnosed with severe dementia (unable to understand and/or follow verbal commands)
suffering from stroke, severe hypertension, heart disease, and diabetes
hip or knee replacement surgery in the past 6 months
hip fracture
having undergoing rehabilitation plan
unable to complete the pre-tests or post-test