Effect of Exercise-education Program PERMANENTO in Late Life

NCT ID: NCT06133894

Last Updated: 2023-11-18

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 90 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2023-02-13
• Study Completion Date: 2023-06-15

Brief Summary

The general aim of the present study is to create and empirically evaluate (RCT trial) an online education and exercise program (called PERMANENTO) to help older adults to understand the wider consequences of being active and offer them easy to follow exercise program inspired by developmental kinesiology.

Detailed Description

There is no doubt about the importance of a physical activity at a later age, yet it is often missing in the lives of seniors and the current epidemiological situation deepens this deficit even further. It is known that insufficient physical activity has a major effect on the decline of functional fitness components, premature development of sarcopenia or frailty syndrome, threatening self-sufficiency, health and consequently quality of life. This is associated with an increased burden on the health care system and related social services, with implications for public budgets. The aim of this project is to eliminate the onset or premature manifestation of negative aspects of aging by prevention. The content is to research a unique intervention inspired by the principles of developmental kinesiology with a presumed positive effect on the health status and the development of a comprehensive exercise and educational program for older adults. The main planned result of the project is a methodological manual and a web application containing education and exercise program for both older adults as well healthcare professionals.

The project responds to the priorities of the Applied Health Research Program for the years 2020-2026 and its focus contributes to a long-term solution of the population aging issue. With regard to demographic change, health and social care systems will be unsustainable without the adoption of preventive measures by seniors themselves. Exercise-educational intervention can lead to lasting changes and can help seniors to actively and responsibly participate in the course of their own aging. Main objective: to reduce negative health related aspects of aging, resp. their premature manifestation, by a preventive exercise-educational program. Sub-objectives: - to develop a specifically targeted exercise-educational program; - to demonstrate effectiveness of the program on health and social related indicators; - to assess acceptability, sustainability and other personal contexts - to create a methodological manual and a web platform for home-dwelling as well as institutionalized older adults containing complex information for independent exercise (how, as well as why).

Conditions

Frailty; Sarcopenia

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Experimental group

The experimental group was educated and instructed and agaged in a 12-week exercise program - 15 minutes 6 times per week of complex daily routines delivered via on-line platform.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Exercise program PERMANENTO inspired by developmental kinesiology

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The intervention is based on activation of reflexive movement patterns which ensures the original reflexive control of strength, mobility and stability. After birth, we cannot control our body movements - they are reflexes "hard-wired" into our brains and vitally important for proper development of our body (muscular system, vestibular system, sensory system, cardiovascular system or digestive system) as well as our brain and nervous systems. During early childhood, everything becomes integrated and works perfectly according to the original design. But this design is slowly abandoned due to for example sedentary lifestyle and replaced by compensatory movement patterns that are making us weaker and defective with all the consequences that are becoming more severe as we age. The aim is restore the original design and improve posture and other crucial components of functional fitness and move better and more.

Contol group

The control group continued in regular daily activities and was offered the same intervention as the experimental group after the research trial.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Exercise program PERMANENTO inspired by developmental kinesiology

The intervention is based on activation of reflexive movement patterns which ensures the original reflexive control of strength, mobility and stability. After birth, we cannot control our body movements - they are reflexes "hard-wired" into our brains and vitally important for proper development of our body (muscular system, vestibular system, sensory system, cardiovascular system or digestive system) as well as our brain and nervous systems. During early childhood, everything becomes integrated and works perfectly according to the original design. But this design is slowly abandoned due to for example sedentary lifestyle and replaced by compensatory movement patterns that are making us weaker and defective with all the consequences that are becoming more severe as we age. The aim is restore the original design and improve posture and other crucial components of functional fitness and move better and more.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• permanent residency in Prague
• being at least 70 years of age or older
• living independently at home

Exclusion Criteria

• significant mobility limitation
• any health condition preventing from physical activity

• Minimum Eligible Age: 70 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Charles University, Czech Republic

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Vladimíra Dostálová

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Katerina Machacova

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Centre of Expertise in Longevity and Long-term care, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University

Locations

Centre of Expertise oi Longevity and Long-term Care

Prague, , Czechia

Countries

Czechia

Other Identifiers

NU22-09-00447

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id