NCT05081505

Community-based Physical Fitness Exercise on the Older Adults' Functional Fitness and Adherence to Physical Activity

The Influence of a New Intervention Model of Community-based Physical Fitness Exercise on the Older Adults' Adherence to Physical Activity and the Improvement of Functional Fitness

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years – 82 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Maintaining adequate physical activity (PA) and regularly exercising are very important to promote the good physical and mental health of the elderly. According to the transtheoretical model (TTM) framework, previous research studies have formulated many strategies to promote exercise behaviors, such as incentive strategies, combines municipal resources and links up with the referral of primary care institutions, or including patients in the decision-making process about exercise choices to enable patients to have greater autonomy. In addition, in terms of the strategic aspects of achieving goals, competitive incentives are also an effective strategy. Therefore, this study aims to find out the effects of the community-based physical fitness exercise course, which is given according to TTM, on improving functional fitness and exercise persistence of the older adults.

Conditions

• Older Adult

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Structural exercise course	12-week structured exercise class, team competition, social support, and incentive strategy
BEHAVIORAL	Autonomous group class	12-week autonomous group class, team competition, social support, and incentive strategy

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-03-30
• Primary completion: 2021-03-29
• Completion: 2021-03-29
• First posted: 2021-10-18
• Last updated: 2021-10-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan