NCT05697497

Functional Activity Strength Training

A Brief Digital Exercise Program to Improve Physical Function Among Older Adults

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 102 (actual)
• Sponsor: Milton S. Hershey Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study is a randomized trial of 100 older adults with mobility disability, who performed a similar brief daily, resistance training program. The investigators set out to answer the following question "Will a digital, brief daily exercise program be feasible, acceptable, and effective among older adults with walking limitations?" To answer that question, participants were assigned to an intervention or delayed-treatment control group. Intervention participants were assigned to complete two 30-second lower body exercises and two 30-second upper body exercises. Fitness tests were completed remotely three times during the 12-weeks (i.e., at baseline, week 6, week 12).

Detailed description

This is a 12-week delayed-control randomized trial to answer the following question "Will a digital, brief daily exercise program be feasible, acceptable, and effective among older adults with walking limitations?" Participants who screen eligible will be assigned to one of four conditions, an immediate workout group, an immediate workout group with activity monitor, a delayed workout group or a delayed workout group with activity monitor. Participants will complete a daily 4-minute exercise routine at home and to record their results using an electronic survey. Other outcome measurements will be conducted remotely at baseline, 6, and 12 weeks. The investigators hypothesize that participants in the AMRAP condition will report significant reductions in functional physical limitations, increased gait speed, and increased physical performance (i.e., increased exercise repetitions) from baseline to 6 weeks compared to those randomized to the delayed-treatment control.

Conditions

• Walking, Difficulty

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Daily exercise intervention	Participants will complete four exercises each day, The first two weeks they will be instructed to complete as many repetitions as possible, each day, for 15 seconds and progressing to 30 seconds per exercise after the first two weeks. Participants are asked to increase their goal repetitions by 1 or 2 from their previous best each week. For all exercises with modifications, we will encourage participants to move to the next most difficult modification once they can do 15 repetitions of that exercise.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-05-01
• Primary completion: 2022-01-06
• Completion: 2022-01-06
• First posted: 2023-01-26
• Last updated: 2025-07-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States