NCT03141866

Seated Physical Activity in Ageing

"Determining the Feasibility of Chair-based Physical Activity Interventions, Aimed at Improving Various Aspects of Health and Wellbeing in Geriatric Populations With Pre-existing Frailty, Within a Hospital Ward Setting"

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Birmingham · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This trial will take the form of a feasibility study; designed to assess the feasibility of a proposed future clinical trial in this setting. This proposed future clinical trial is proposed to assess the impact of physical activity, in the form of specialised chair based physical activity interventions, on the physiological, psychological, cognitive, social and emotional health, and functional capacity of geriatric populations with pre-existing frailty within a clinical hospital ward setting; recognising health as a holistic concept incorporating a multitude of inter-related dimensions. This feasibility study is single-centre (taking place in the Harborne Ward of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Mindelsohn Way, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom).

Conditions

• Frail Elderly Syndrome
• Frailty
• Physical Activity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Exercise Intervention 1: Move It Or Lose It (MIOLI)	An established chair-based physical activity programme for older adults.
OTHER	Exercise Intervention 2: Machine-based resistance training intervention	Specialised, chair-based, pneumatic resistance training equipment for older adults.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-09-03
• Primary completion: 2019-08-09
• Completion: 2019-08-09
• First posted: 2017-05-05
• Last updated: 2019-07-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom