Multicomponent Intervention in Women at Risk of Sarcopenia

Coordinación de Investigación en Salud, Mexico

Status

Completed

Conditions

Gait Speed

Grip Strength

Sarcopenia

Body Composition

Treatments

Other: Multicomponent intervention of resistance exercises, dancing sessions and nutritional education

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06038500

R-2019-1310-040

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this quasi-experimental pilot study is to evaluate the effect of a multi-component intervention in women between 55 and 75 years old at risk of sarcopenia. The main question it aims to answer are: What is the effect of a multi-component intervention in women at risk of sarcopenia? Participants will twelve women between 55 and 75 years old with risk of sarcopenia, who agreed through written informed consent for participate 12 weeks with 24 sessions included dancing, resistance exercises, and nutritional education. The outcomes were muscle mass, grip strength, gait speed and body composition. The effects were measured before and after the intervention, under a self-controlled design.

Full description

Physical exercise, especially resistance exercise, is one of the best non-pharmacological treatment alternatives due to its multiple health benefits and could be a promoter for the prevention of sarcopenia by delaying muscle atrophy produced by the natural aging process. However, scientific literature shows that this activity when combined with other strategies has a better effect on sarcopenia indicators than alone. Dance is a social activity that is part of the culture and life history of human beings, however, current research has focused on studying the cognitive and visuospatial effects of this activity. It could be an activity with beneficial effects on the physical abilities of the individual since dancing improves flexibility, resistance and balance. However, the study of these two strategies, along with nutritional education has been little studied.

Therefore, a pilot test was proposed with the aim of knowing the possible effect of a multicomponent intervention on muscle, strength, performance, and body composition on women at risk of sarcopenia.

Enrollment

14 patients

Sex

Female

Ages

55 to 75 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Positive requested through written informed consent
Current public health insurance
Preserved physical and mental capacities (verified through data from the medical record)
Having a lower grip strength, less or equal to 20.99 kg
Appendicular skeletal muscle index (ASMI) maintained, greater or equal to 5.5 kg/m^2
Walking speed greater or equal to 0.8 m/s

Exclusion criteria

Bioelectric activity add (osteosynthesis metal systems or devices, pacemakers, defibrillators)
Alterations of body composition (history of cancer, uncontrolled chronic degenerative diseases, risk of malnutrition, respiratory insufficiency, asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hospitalization in the year prior to the study; limitations in carrying out the basic activities of daily living; medical contraindication for physical activity, and or belonging to another physical activity group).