Online-supervised Exercise Program in Elderly People With Diabetes

Mehmet Akif Ersoy University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Type2diabetes; Exercise Program

Treatments: Behavioral: Online-supervised exercise group; Behavioral: Unsupervised-exercise training group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05580120

GO 2021/293

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study was conducted to determine the effect of an online-supervised exercise program on fasting blood sugar, psychological resilience, and quality of life in elderly people with diabetes. A parallel-group, randomized controlled trial design was used. The study was conducted in a public hospital with 70 patients with elderly type 2 diabetes between Nowember 2021 and May 2022. A Personal Information Form, The Brief Resilience Scale and A Measure of Quality of Life in the Elderly were used to collect data.

Enrollment: 70 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Having a diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes mellitus for at least 6 months,
• Being aged >50 years,
• Receiving oral antidiabetic and/or insulin therapy,
• Having a smartphone or a computer,
• Volunteering to participate in the study,

Exclusion criteria

• Individuals who had type 2 DM, but were illiterate
• Had vision and hearing loss
• Did not volunteer to participate in the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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70 participants in 2 patient groups

Online-supervised exercise group

Experimental group

Description:

After the pre-tests (The Brief Resilience Scale, Quality of Life) , the patients were given online-supervised exercise education for 6 weeks.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Online-supervised exercise group

The unsupervised-exercise training group

Experimental group

Description:

After the pre-tests (The Brief Resilience Scale, Quality of Life) , the patients were given unsupervised exercise education for 6 weeks.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Unsupervised-exercise training group