The Effect of Otago Exercises in the Elderly

Gazi University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Healthy Aging

Treatments

Other: Otago Exercise Programme

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05213091

2021-465

Details and patient eligibility

About

Home-based and individually designed exercise program; It consists of warming up, strengthening, balance exercises and walking plan. The number, intensity and duration of the movements are personalized according to preference and ability and are progressed gradually. Elderly individuals are expected to do this set of exercises three times a week and walk for 30 minutes twice a week. Since the Otago Exercise Programme includes combined exercises, the outputs of the effectiveness of the program will be different. For this purpose, the effect of otago exercises on fear of falling, balance, strengthening and functional mobility will be determined in the elderly living in nursing homes.

Full description

The first four weeks will be Otago Exercise Programme training and practice. For the next weeks, there will be institution visits and telephone interviews. Individuals will be given an Otago Exercise Programme training booklet, exercise chart and exercise diary to better manage this process. The research will be conducted in small groups (average 6-8). The control group is expected to continue their daily life. No attempt will be made by the researcher during the research process. Stratified randomization method according to age and gender was used in the study. The website was used to assign individuals meeting the inclusion criteria in each stratum to a determined number of groups. Masking will be done in terms of research data/output measurements (evaluator), statistician and reporting.

Enrollment

56 patients

Sex

All

Ages

65+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

To be 65 years or older
To be literate
Having no problem in verbal communication
Not having a disability based on sight, hearing and lack of limbs
Obtaining at least 91 points or more according to the Barthel Activities of Daily Living Index (to be mildly dependent or completely independent)
Mini Mental Test to be 24 points and above
Having a doctor's report that it will not interfere with exercise

Exclusion criteria

Having a medical contraindication for exercise
Having acute or terminal illnesses and serious chronic illnesses that limit participation in exercise sessions
Having a lower extremity fracture in the past year
Having had an operation in the last month
Being diagnosed with any neuropsychiatric disease