ABLE (Arts-Based Exercise Enhancing LongEvity): Interactive, Arts-based Technology to Support Sustainable Exercise Participation in the Homes of Older Adults: Protocol for a Pre-post Pilot Feasibility Study
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 入组人数
- 25
- 主要终点
- Retention
研究概览
简要总结
Older adults who are referred to home care physiotherapy often only get to see the physiotherapist three to five times and are expected to continue exercising on their own. We have developed an interactive technology called ABLE that helps older adults do exercise in their homes by making it fun and interactive. We want to see if we can help 25 older adults to exercise with ABLE for three months and if exercising with ABLE for three months changes older adults' strength and balance. A physiotherapist will visit the older adults three times in their homes and show them how to use ABLE and which exercises to do. We will measure older adults' strength and balance before and after using the program and ask them and their family members for feedback about using ABLE. The results of our study will help us decide if we can do a bigger study to test the effect of using ABLE in a larger group of older adults, and to see what effect ABLE might have on strength and balance. The study will also help us incorporate feedback from the older adults and their families to improve ABLE for the next study.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Na
- 干预模型
- Single Group
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 65 Years 至 —（Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •able to stand and walk independently with or without an assistive aid (e.g., walker, cane)
- •may have a diagnosis of dementia or cognitive impairment (MoCA < 25, MMSE <24, Mini-Cog <3) if they have caregiver willing to assist with exercises and consent
排除标准
- •have a diagnosis of dementia or cognitive impairment (MoCA < 25, MMSE <24, Mini-Cog <3) and have no family member to assist with exercises and consent
- •documented absolute contraindications to exercise
研究组 & 干预措施
Exercise
Participants will engage in a physiotherapist-prescribed home exercise program with ABLE, the interactive technology. The exercises that will be prescribed are designed to improve functional mobility via challenging lower extremity strength and balance in a multicomponent exercise program. The difficulty of each exercise will be chosen at the discretion of the physiotherapist based on the participants' performance on the baseline assessments. The exercises will be prescribed at a moderate intensity (moderate balance challenge, 8-12 repetitions for strength exercises with the last few repetitions being challenging) and will be progressed over the study duration to ensure they remain a moderate challenge.
干预措施: ABLE - exercise with interactive technology (Behavioral)
结局指标
主要结局
Retention
时间窗: Three months
The number of participants who complete visit 4.
Recruitment
时间窗: One year
The number of participants recruited over one year.
Adherence
时间窗: Three months
The number of days per week that participants complete the home exercise program.
次要结局
- Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB)(Three months)
- Balance Outcome Measure for Elder Rehabilitation (BOOMER)(Three months)
- Participant feedback(Three months)
- Self-reported falls as reported in daily diary(Three months)
- International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ)(Three months)