Effects of Fun Physical Activity on the Interest to Daily Physical Activity and Sarcopenia of Elderly People

Phase 1

• Conditions: Activity
• Interventions: Other: fun exercise

• Registration Number: NCT02259673
• Lead Sponsor: Mashhad University of Medical Sciences

Brief Summary

In this research, the elderly living in nursing homes were selected in two group control and intervention.

Intervention group 3 times a week for 20 minutes during 2 months, fun physical exercises (including activities carried out with the use of sports equipment such as beach ball, stretch, bird toys, etc).

Detailed Description

Have of a healthy life with minimal complications in this period. Most important issue in improving the health and quality of life of the elderly is maintain their independence in physical activity. World Health Organization (WHO) is believed that, the first indicator of the health of a society is physical activity of the society.

The studies show that sarcopenia leads to a decrease in the function and increase of disability 2/1 male and 3/1 are older women. sarcopenia leads to some perturbation such as, movement disorders, impaired balance, the incidence of inflammatory disease and dementia. In this reserch, the elderly living in nursing homes were selected in two group control and intervention.

Intervention group 3 times a week for 20 minutes during 2 months, fun physical exercises.

(including activities carried out with the use of sports equipment such as beach ball, stretch, bird toys, etc).

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2014-09
• Study First Submitted: 2014-09-29
• Study First Submitted QC: 2014-10-04
• Study First Posted: 2014-10-08
• Status Verified: 2015-04
• Primary Completion: 2015-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2015-04-07
• Last Update Posted: 2015-04-08
• Study Completion: 2015-06

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 63

Inclusion Criteria

• age more than 60 year

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Exclusion Criteria

• absence more than 3 session training

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
fun exercise	fun exercise	effect of fun physical exercise on interest in exercise
Fun exercise	fun exercise	effect of fun physical exercise on sarcopenia

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
interest of daily physical activity	one month	including activities carried out with the use of sports equipment such as beach ball, stretch, bird toys, etc that will be measured with Exercise Dependence Scale-21 Manual(EDS)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Mashhad University Medical of siences; 🇮🇷 Mashhad, Iran, Islamic Republic of