SingHealth Polyclinics - Functional Strength Building of Older Persons (FABULOS)

SingHealth Polyclinics

Status: Completed

Conditions: Prefrail Elderly

Treatments: Behavioral: Group exercise programme

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07133282

SHPFABULOS

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this study is to find out if a 12-week exercise programme for pre-frail seniors will result in an improvement in physical performance measures.

Participants attended 12 group exercise sessions, lasting one hour each, and held once a week. Three of these sessions were be conducted remotely, via a video link that participants will follow at their own time. Physical performance measures were taken at the first and last sessions.

Enrollment: 227 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 65 years or older, and
• Clinical Frailty score of 3 or 4.

Exclusion criteria

• Persons who had pre-existing medical contraindications to exercise OR
• clinical symptoms that rendered them unsuitable for physical activity as determined by their attending physician OR
• cognitive impairment affecting their ability to provide informed consent.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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227 participants in 1 patient group

Exercise group

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention was twelve sessions of group exercise, delivered by exercise physiologists from ProAge (a health promotion social enterprise), lasting one hour each and conducted weekly. Each group had 10-15 participants. Nine sessions were held in-person, and three out of these twelve sessions were held remotely - the physiologist would send a video link of an exercise session for participants to follow at their own time for the week.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Group exercise programme