Efficiency of Physical Activity on the Physical Condition of Elderly Women

Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos

Status: Completed

Conditions: Aging

Treatments: Other: Physical activity program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01558401

Ethics Committe UFSCar Nº104/4

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study was to identify the effects and the efficiency of an adapted physical activity program as regards the physical condition of older Brazilian women.

Full description

Although physical activity programs for the elderly have proved to be able to curb harmful changes due to ageing, not all programs show the same effectiveness, even though they are generally regarded as being effective. The existence of a wide variety of programs calls for debate about their outcomes.

Specific research tools and designs can assist in identifying not only program effectiveness but also program efficiency and use in terms of a better physical performance of subjects on carrying out exercises with less effort, influenced by multiple factors, one of them being adherence to the program. These analyses allow the influence of efficiency and the factors that determine it or are associated with it to be tested, and can provide classifications and subgroups to which interventions should be adapted if they are to offer the best service to them in the short and medium term.

Enrollment: 120 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 60+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 60 or more years
• participants of an Adult Revitalization Program in São Carlos (São Paulo State - Brazil)

Exclusion criteria

• physical characteristics and previous health problems that might hinder their participation in the program activities.
• adherence to the program sessions lower than 75%.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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120 participants in 1 patient group

Physical activity program Group

Experimental group

Description:

The physical activity program consists of 123 sessions over 52 weeks. The initial assessment is followed by 12 weeks of physical activity. After this ten-week period, a second assessment is performed, followed by 3 weeks of rest. This is followed by a further 17 weeks of activities, 4 weeks of activities followed by 4 weeks of rest. Finally, there were 12 more weeks of activities.

Treatment:

Other: Physical activity program