Home Exercises for Fall-related Variables in Elderly Adults

Bozyaka Training and Research Hospital

Status

Completed

Conditions

Community-dwelling Older Adults

Treatments

Procedure: home exercises

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05337839

21102021TK

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim was to measure and compare the effects of supervised and unsupervised home exercises on the fall related variables.

Full description

There are several studies investigating the beneficial effects of exercise on physical function among elderly. However the trials that reporting beneficial effects of an exercise programme on psychosocial functions such as depression and falls efficacy are scarcend. And also these trials are designed to compare fully supervised experimental group with a control group receiving usual care. In only one, out of these studies, supervision was minimal and delivered via home visit. However no psychosocial function related outcome measure was evaluated. In the present study the investigators have intended to assess the effects of minimally supervised home exercise programme on physical and psychosocial fall related variables by comparing with unsupervised home exercise programme in community-dwelling older adults.

Enrollment

75 patients

Sex

All

Ages

65+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Ability to perform timed up and go (TUG) test
not having regular exercise habit
a score above 20 on the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE)

Exclusion criteria

medical conditions impeding to perform exercises such as severe musculoskeletal and neurological disease, severe visual impairment, cardiovascular, pulmonary or malignant disease