Exercise Intervention for Patients With Sarcopenia or Frailty in Long-term Care Institutions

NCT ID: NCT03650907

Last Updated: 2019-08-13

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 52 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2018-08-24
• Study Completion Date: 2019-05-31

Brief Summary

Sarcopenia is a geriatric syndrome of decreased muscle volume with muscular function decline. There is more tendency for sarcopenic elderly to be frail, disabled, or have cardiovascular disease. Compared to those who are not sarcopenic, they also had worse prognosis in response to treatment for definite diseases, and spend more medical cost.

Exercise appears to have an important role in management of sarcopenia. In the current study, the investigators provide an exercise program, including resistance/balance training for the elderly with sarcopenia or frailty in long-term care institution, and evaluate the effect.

Conditions

Sarcopenia

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NON_RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Group exercise program by coach

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Group exercise program

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Patients in experimental group attend group exercise program, instructed by fitness trainer, at long-term care institutions.

Frequency: 3 times per week. Type: resistance/flexibility/balance training, including warm-up and cold-down. Duration: 1 hour per time, for 16 weeks.

Self exercise

Group Type: SHAM_COMPARATOR

Self exercise program

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Patients in control group receive oral education for self exercise program, mainly resistance muscle training. Patients are requested to do self-training for 16 weeks.

Interventions

Group exercise program

Patients in experimental group attend group exercise program, instructed by fitness trainer, at long-term care institutions.

Frequency: 3 times per week. Type: resistance/flexibility/balance training, including warm-up and cold-down. Duration: 1 hour per time, for 16 weeks.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Self exercise program

Patients in control group receive oral education for self exercise program, mainly resistance muscle training. Patients are requested to do self-training for 16 weeks.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

1. >20-year-old

2. diagnosed with sarcopenia (by the definition from Asia workgroup for sarcopenia, AWGS) or frailty (The Fried model, based on five functional criteria)

Exclusion Criteria

1. Severe medical diseases or mental problems, which result in difficulty to follow exercise program.

2. Inability to get down from bed for activity due to disease, such as neuropathy or orthopedic disease.

3. High risk group for exercise program, such as those with unstable fracture or nonunion fracture.

4. Anyone who didn't want attend this study.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 20 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 110 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Chang Gung Memorial Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Wen-Chun Tseng

Physiatrist, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Wen-Chun Tseng

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Chang Gung Medical Hospital

Locations

Bor-Ay Sweet home

Keelung, , Taiwan

Countries

Taiwan

Other Identifiers

SarcExercise

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id